Sloppy maid. An infant with diarrhea. Lonely elderly woman. Or ... a sneezing cook. One, often unaware, carrier was enough to infect dozens or even hundreds of people who passed the disease on. How is that even possible? The years 1665-1666 were unlucky for the people of London. Not only was the
Propaganda films, manipulated series, book peans. For half a century, the peoples government did everything to instill in Poles undying gratitude for being freed from German occupation. Millions still see liberators in the Red Army. What was the reality like? 1. They saved in the morning, raped
It is impossible to carry a rifle without food. The Warsaw insurgents knew it very well. Soup-spit, porridge with worms, workhorses on a plate. In August 1944, the fight against hunger was not much easier than the fight against the occupant. The beginnings did not foreshadow a catastrophe. In th
Scientists were Stalins ammunition in the fight against the rotten capitalist West. Their great discoveries were to prove to other countries the power of the Soviet Union. But in the hands of the Red Tsar and his successors, even Nobel Prize winners, though useful in propaganda, were only passive to