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With its many amusing takes on Soviet life and its insights into Communist ideology, “How I Became a Man” offers an excellent education in the evils and banality of totalitarianism.
NATO members Germany and the U.K. were among those stressing the need for a full investigation into the strike that killed two people in Poland.
Seoul’s defence ministry said a projectile that landed near South Korean waters last week was a SA-5 anti-aircraft missile of the type the North has had since the mid-1980s.
People understand the world through the stories they are told and tell, a historian writes. In the case of the war in Ukraine, narratives can create problems.
Between 20,000 and 100,000 people died after Soviet secret police blew up the dam in 1941 to slow the Nazi advance into what is now eastern Ukraine.