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My Grandfather's Account of the Early Days of Germany's Attack on the Soviet Union in World War II

Today is the 85th anniversary of that momentous event.

Reason

17 Actors Born To Play A Real-Life Person Just Based On Their Insane Resemblance

These doppelgängers look so alike, they've convinced the internet that they are either time-travelers or clones.

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Minister sacked over WhatsApp group called voter a ‘hag’ and mocked her house in sweary rant

Andrew Gwynne joked about killing a fellow MP with a pickaxe and said a prominent community member should be bullied

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Frederic Jameson: Beloved Authoritarian

His famous erudition was attached to his nightmare politics.

Reason

Russian Dissidents Face Harassment And Attacks Abroad

Russian intelligence operations targeting dissidents abroad raise concerns about Kremlin's reach and suppression of opposition voices.

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Ecuador Raid A Blow To Mexico's 'Sacred' Asylum Tradition

In the past century, Mexico has opened its doors to revolutionaries, Spanish exiles, and persecuted Latin American leaders -- a tradition that has been dealt an unprecedented blow by a police invasion of its embassy in Ecuador.

International Business Times

Ben Miller on his Death in Paradise murder: 'I got shivved with an ice pick, like Trotsky!'

'I can only imagine the writer resented me leaving!'

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October babies: Birthdays of famous people born in October

October, the 10th month of the year, has witnessed the birth of several great personalities in the past. Leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche were born in October.

The Times of India

The story of The Stranglers' controversial No More Heroes album: "We got away with murder"

Hugh Cornwell tells the story of the Stranglers' summer-of-punk-classic second album No More Heroes: "We definitely couldn’t get away with that now"

Louder

Putin, Biden, Ukraine and ... Trotsky?

What century is this, anyway? How a long-ago split in the Marxist left helps to explain the Ukraine conundrum

Salon

Timeline: The Bolsheviks to Putin: a history of Russian defaults

In 1918, Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky told Western creditors aghast at the Bolsheviks' repudiation of Russia's external debt: "Gentlemen, you were warned."

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