As a former DOD employee, I had to sit through some DEI events, and in my view, they were not a great use of government time.

But no: she was flown to Moscow, interviewed by agents of Lavrenti Beria and Viktor Abakumov (head of Smersh), then returned to Berlin and given every assistance in her ...

Yezhov means ‘Hedgehog’, although Stalin called him affectionately Yezhevichka, ‘little bramble’. Despite the implicit prickliness, there was momentary relief in the USSR when, in autumn 1936, Stalin ...

In 1953 when the Soviet authorities denounced the former Secret Police Chief Lavrenthi Beria, the Time magazine published an article titled “Russia: Policeman on Trial”. Suddenly the term Beria became ...