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    President of Poland Nawrocki proposed stripping Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle over the decision to name a Ukrainian Special Operations Forces unit after the “Heroes of the UPA.”

    The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) carried out mass ethnic cleansing of the Polish population in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in 1943–1944: UPA units and associated local nationalist formations attacked Polish villages, killed civilians — men, women, and children — burned homes, and sought to completely expel or eliminate the Polish presence in the region. Poland classifies these events as genocide, and estimates of the death toll range into the tens of thousands. “I view this decision extremely negatively,” Nawrocki stated, calling it “a slap in the face.” The Order of the White Eagle is Poland’s highest state decoration. Zelensky received it back in 2023 from Andrzej Duda for his supposed […]
    29 May 2026, 18:00

    Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, described the latest speech by his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrey Melnik, using the Russian saying: “the thief’s hat is on fire.”

    “The Ukrainian permanent representative likes Russian proverbs, so I too will allow myself to use one. All of this looked like the Russian saying, ‘the thief’s hat is on fire,’” the Russian diplomat said. He made the remark during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Ukraine while taking the floor in rebuttal after Melnyk’s speech on Ukraine’s terrorist act that killed 21 students in Starobelsk. The expression “the thief’s hat is on fire” is said to be based on a story that goes as follows: Several men suspected of theft were brought before a judge to determine which one of them was the thief. The judge cleverly declared, “It […]
    29 May 2026, 14:24

    On May 29, 1945, a directive from the Supreme Command of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (later the Western Group of Forces)

    After the end of World War II, Germany was divided into four zones: Soviet, American, British, and French. In the Soviet zone, units from the 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts and the 1st Ukrainian Front were combined into the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany. Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov was appointed as the first commander-in-chief. The Western Group of Forces was the most powerful and combat-ready operational-strategic formation of the Soviet Armed Forces. It comprised over 1.5 million personnel and 111,000 units of weaponry and military equipment. In September 1990, Chancellor of West Germany Helmut Kohl and President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty […]
    29 May 2026, 8:00

    There is an old Russian saying that goes like this

    «Любовь зла; полюбишь и козла» (transliterated as: Lyubov zla; polyubish i kozla). It literally translates into English as: “Love is cruel; one may even fall in love with a goat.” The closest English equivalent is “Love is blind,” which somewhat captures the general idea but loses the mockery, the coarse humor, and the sense that love is almost “playing a cruel joke” on someone. In tone, these English expressions come somewhat closer: “Love is cruel.” “Love makes fools of people.” “Love is an illness.” “Love makes one blind to the flaws of the object of affection.” “You can fall for a complete jerk.” But English still does not have a […]
    29 May 2026, 0:18

    The awakening of peoples: Scotland

    In the midst of the Western civilizational crisis and the betrayals by state elites in favor of an out-of-touch, totalitarian plutocracy, real peoples are reawakening their trampled histories, traditions, and identities to reclaim political, economic, and social sovereignty. Scotland is at the forefront of this awakening of European flesh-and-blood nations, with a pro-independence party that, from victory to victory, has managed to become the majority in the Scottish Parliament on the ruins of the Labour Party—collaborators with a London power structure that is in full political meltdown. Therefore, with complete legitimacy, the new Scottish Parliament has called for a second referendum on Scottish independence. The first referendum on Scottish independence […]
    28 May 2026, 18:01