«The Battle of Algiers» has been considered the most influential political film for 60 years now. The resonance after the release of this film, shot in the traditions of Italian neorealism, sparked a wave of decolonial movements in different countries. Gillo Pontecorvo’s film with Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack is included in rankings of the greatest cinema of all time, and the methods of underground struggle are still used by activists around the world, including Russia.

#20thcentury #decoloniality #GilloPontecorvo #Italy #Italianneorealism #movie #leftandright #protests #revolution #France #EnnioMorricone

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More than 30 years after the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by Serbian nationalists in Srebrenica, the world is once again remembering those nightmare events — this week, their chief organizer died. At the same time, for modern Serbian far-right activists and their platonic Russian fellow travelers, Mladić, like the organizers of other mass killings in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, remains a hero.

#20thcentury #warcriminals #genocideinSrebrenica #CivilWar #History #nationalism #RatkoMladic #Russia #Serbia #ultraright #Yugoslavia

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Surely everyone interested in the country's past has at least once wondered: could it have become different? And if so, under what circumstances? One of the turning points — the events of November 1920 in Crimea. Those days saw the fall of the last anti-Bolshevik regime in the European part of the former empire, the Government of South Russia under Lieutenant General Pyotr Wrangel.

#20thcentury #alternativeRussia #BaronWrangel #WhiteGuard #Bolshevism #CivilWarinRussia #History #Crimea #France #Emigration

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On the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Repression, we analyze the most dangerous stereotypes about Stalin’s crimes

#20thcentury #historicalmemory #History #Myths #aftertheUSSR #repressions #Russia #Stalin #Stalinism

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The story of how to seize a foreign country in three days and convince its people that their lives have improved

#20thcentury #America #Grenada #History #asmallvictoriouswar #putsch #RonaldReagan #theUSSR #USA #ColdWar

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The brief period of the rise of Ukrainian literature and art in the 1920s-30s is called the «Executed Renaissance.» The intellectual and creative atmosphere of those years was so enticing that emigrants fleeing the Civil War began moving to Ukraine. But the golden age ended as abruptly as it began. «Most.Media» recalls the tragic biographies of the participants in this movement.

#20thcentury #Holodomor #CivilWar #dictatorship #historicalmemory #History #literature #poetry #repressions #Sandarmokh #freedom #theUSSR #Stalinism #Ukraine #Kharkov #Emigration #language

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Already as president, de Gaulle liked to say that he was the only politician defending France's interests because he was criticized by both the left and the right. There is some truth to this.

#20thcentury #WorldWarII #elections #democracy #europe #west #historicalmyth #History #conservatism #republic #resistance #France #CharlesdeGaulle

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