Tag Antonov uprising

Tambov and Ghouta

Why would Bashar Assad order the chemical attack in eastern Ghouta? I’ve come across a helpful counterquestion asked by someone in the Russian-speaking parts of the web: And why did Mikhail Tukhachevsky use poison gas against the Tambov insurgents in…

The reasoning behind a great famine

That is, Golodomor or Holdomor in (the) Ukraine (let’s add Kazakhstan, the West and South Siberia, the South Urals, the Upper and Lower Volga, the North Caucasus). I’m trying to understand the logic that may have led Moscow to act…