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Allied war crimes during World War II

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Allied war crimes were violations of the laws of war committed by the Allies of World War II against civilian populations or military personnel of the Axis Powers.

At the end of World War II, several trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials. However, in Europe, these tribunals were set up under the authority of the London Charter, which only considered allegations of war crimes committed by persons who acted in the interests of the European Axis countries. Continue reading →

The Soviet Genocide in Ukraine

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Millions of Ukrainian Christians were intentionally killed by the Soviets. The famine (sometimes called the Holodomor or Ukrainian Famine 1932-33) was not a natural disaster, it was a carefully orchestrated killing on a massive scale.

It was meant to force collectivization and destroy any independent national consciousness. It turned Ukraine into a mass graveyard. Before Ukraine declared independence this crime against humanity was never officially recognized. The genocide was denied, its perpetrators never punished.

Galerius and The Dacian Empire

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Galerius Maximianus (c. 250 – 5 May, 311), formally Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, Roman emperor from 305 to 311, was born on a small farm estate, on the site where he later built his palace, Felix Romuliana. His father was a Thracian and his mother Romula was a Dacian woman. Continue reading →

Alexander of Macedon -Thracian or Greek ?

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During the reign of Alexander the Great, the Macedonians spoke their own native language, as the native language language of Alexander the Great was not understood by the ancient Greeks (Quintus Curtius Rufus, VI, 9, 37 ). Similarly, Plutarch points out that Alexander spoke to his fellow countrymen in Macedonian Continue reading →