History

Dekemvriana: Inside Churchill’s Secret Alliance with the Nazis

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Dekemvriana: Inside Churchill's Secret Alliance with the Nazis

77 years ago, Churchill quietly armed Nazi collaborators in Greece to help him seize control of the country. On December 3, 1944, British-backed police fired into a crowd of unarmed protesters in Athens. Dekemvriana (Δεκεμβριανά, December events) sparked the White Terror and Greek Civil War.

World War II was the Greatest Moral Failure in Western History

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The more I put aside the propaganda and look at World War II for what it really was, the more I am amazed. We endlessly blame the Soviet Union for everything that went wrong, but we give the Western allies a pass for basically handing Hitler all of Europe with almost no fight. The war would have gone very differently if the Germans had to conquer the West one house at a time in a grinding war of attrition, rather than marching triumphantly into undefended cities.

Megiddo: The First “Officially” Recorded Battle in History

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Megiddo: The First "Officially" Recorded Battle in History Battle of Megiddo

In this battle, Thutmose III crushed a coalition of rebels in Canaan. Aside from advances in military tactics and technology (like the composite bow), the confrontation at Megiddo was the first known case of an accurate play-by-play description of the battle, including the body count.