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Youth volunteers reach out to families hit by pandemic in Kozhikode A spike in the number of critical COVID-19 cases and unexpected deaths have prompted many political and religious organisations in the district to voluntarily form their own youth task forces to ensure dignified last rites for victims of the pandemic. Complying with the safety protocol, they have reached out to many needy families that were going through a painful situation with the death of their dear and near ones. White Guards, COVID-19 Prevention Armym and Millat Brigade are some of such volunteer units supported by pol...

White Guard Memorandum On Organizing An Uprising In Kronstadt. Already pretty quickly after the events in Kronstadt we had absolutely solid proof the leaders and organizers of the mutiny were White Guardists or were working with White Guardists. And now with the archival materials, we have absolutely mountains of further evidence. If anyone says otherwise, they are wilfully ignorant or lying. HOW THE MUTINY WAS ORGANIZED In 1921 the country was in ruins after years of WWI and civil war. Fuel and food were always extremely scarce. As long as the civil war lasted, the population tolerated all t...

How an SS brigade joined Soviet partisans in the fight against the Nazis Colonel Constantine Kromiadi (C), Vladimir Gil (next to him), and officers of the Druzhina brigade. Archive photo The Soviet government did not know what it would do with punishers from the Druzhina SS Brigade, who had defected to its side when the war was over. In the end, that problem resolved itself. During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens fought on the side of the Nazis. Collaborators were considered some of the worst enemies of the USSR, and Red Army soldiers often preferred no...

Aditya Raj, student at National Law University, Jodhpur, in India discusses Turkey’s recent use of mercenaries in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region… The armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia which was over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh had developed quite an interesting twist with Turkey projecting itself as a ‘big’ brother of Azerbaijan and throwing its weight behind Baku and sending Syrian mercenaries to fight in the conflict. Ankara’s involvement in the conflict of the Caucasus is another portrayal of its hegemonic ambitions in its neighboring region. Turkish...