Oriental Review

The Iran/Iraq War: Mutual Assured Destruction

By Dean HENDERSON (USA)

In 1979, as Iranian revolutionaries were taking charge in Tehran, Carter National Security Adviser, Afghan Frankenstein godfather and Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski was in Kuwait City meeting with Kuwaiti Emir Sheik Jaber Ahmed al Sabah, House of Saud envoys and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The group decided that Saddam’s Republican Guard would seize the [...]

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How We Almost Killed Each Other

By Dmitry MINAEV (Russia)

In 2009, I wrote about a fictional occupation of the USSR by the USA: The World War that never happened. Recently, I learned about some more wars that never happened. Or was it the same war? The article was published at OrientalReview.org: Britain Planned to Attack USSR on June 12, 1941 The first potential war [...]

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Fascist Historical Myth Reanimated

By Yuri RUBTSOV (Russia)

There is no shortage of arguments to challenge the groundless and deeply unfair claim that the USSR and the fascist Germany were equally responsible for the outbreak of World War II. Even a sketchy juxtaposition of Berlin’s and Moscow’s pre-war military plans highlights the fundamental difference in the two countries’ intentions. * * * Hitler [...]

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Episode 7. Britain and France Planned to Assault Soviet Union in 1940

By Alexander TRUBITSYN (Russia)

On March 23, 1940, a twin-engine civilian Lockheed-12A, registration code G-AGAR, took off from an airfield in the London suburb of Heston. British pilot Haig McLane was at the controls. The aircraft set course for Malta; then after an intermediate stop in Cairo, it flew on to the British military base in Baghdad. From there, [...]

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Geopolitics Behind the Great Victory

By Leonid IVASHOV (Russia)

While talking of the great triumph over Nazis in World War II, discussing the global impact of the Soviet people’s victory, and saying that it irreversibly transformed the world, we often fail to appreciate the extent of heroism of Soviet soldiers and the proportions of the changes it helped to bring about… Obviously, the debates [...]

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Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism (V)

Nikolay Starikov (Russia) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 But back to Russia. In giving the finger to his Western Partners and breaking Russia’s diplomatic isolation at the Genoa Conference by signing the Treaty of Rapallo, Lenin had expended the last of his strength. In May 1922, he had a stroke. It was [...]

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Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism (IV)

Nikolay Starikov (Russia) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 About a year before Hitler organized the Beer Hall Putsch, some curious personalities appeared in his entourage, and historians have still been unable to determine the origin of the sums of money that they brought with them. The cash flowed in from many sides. In addition [...]

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Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism (III)

Nikolay Starikov (Russia) Part 1 Part 2 In order to properly understand the relationship between the Bolsheviks and the West, it is important to remember that the Leninists «cheated» the Anglo-Saxons. They underlined the most important points: they didn’t sell off the country; they didn’t give out its wealth. But as long as the Russian [...]

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How Will America Blame Russia Now?

Igor Chebykin (Russia) The United States has revealed a widely known secret: the military, political and scientific leaders of Fascist Germany who avoided Soviet (or Allied) bullets and the Nuremberg hangman’s rope found a safe haven and good work in America after the war. The New York Times recently published the full text of a [...]

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When Will the Great Game End?

Konstantin PENZEV (Russia) Let us begin with some definitions as the scientific community does. The “Great Game” is the term used to describe the period of imperialist rivalry between the British and Russian Empires for supremacy in Central Asia between 1813 and 1907. But the term seems to describe only part of the phenomenon because [...]

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A Trap for Hussein (II)

New Eastern Outlook Part 1 After the end of the eight year-long Iraq-Iran War Washington was left facing the issue of legitimising its further military presence in the strategically important (for the US) region of the Persian Gulf. By that time both of the countries involved in the conflict were bankrupt and were in need [...]

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A Trap for Hussein (I)

New Eastern Outlook After the failure of a series of talks between Iraq and Kuwait, including those conducted in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), the Iraqi army invaded Kuwait’s territory in the early morning of the 2nd of August, 1990. Having overcome the resistance of the small Kuwaiti army, the 120 thousand Iraqi military group managed to [...]

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