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Why this island keeps coming up?
Let’s start with antisemitism, because real thinking usually disappears the moment the conversation treats it as something completely separate and more important than every other kind of ethnic hostility, as if it were the only form that is truly unacceptable. Once that happens, the discussion stops being about principles and starts turning into an ideology of ethnic supremacy.
After WWII, the Soviet Union was recovering fast. By 1957, they had launched the first artificial satellite - Sputnik.

The civil war that led to Finland's separation from Russia ended in 1918. Yet Finnish authorities chose not to stop there. Almost immediately, they launched armed actions against Soviet Russia, aiming to annex Russian Karelia. The preferred method was indirect: carve out a buffer entity, a so-called North Karelian state, which could later be absorbed. Annexation through a proxy.
The maritime blockade became the key instrument. As long as tankers cannot safely export oil, the country’s economy is effectively strangled. This is crude blackmail and it contradicts international law, but within the American framework it remains acceptable as long as it encounters no resistance. The problem emerged when it became clear that the blockade could be bypassed by lawful means.
In December 1936, a Soviet cargo ship transporting manganese ore from the Georgian port of Poti to the Belgian city of Ghent was intercepted and shelled until it sank. Before the attack, the vessel was searched, the crew was ordered off, and only then was it destroyed by artillery fire. The most likely motive was retaliation. On an earlier voyage, the same ship had delivered military supplies to Republican Spain.
Born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand in the Russian Empire, Parvus moved through Europe building connections in socialist circles. He participated in the 1905 revolution, escaped exile to Siberia, and settled in Constantinople where he advised the Young Turks and amassed substantial wealth.

1775. Britain needs troops to crush the American rebellion.
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, commander of the German 6th Army, who surrendered at Stalingrad:
For decades, the Berlin Airlift has been told as a fairy tale. Stalin blockaded the city: cruel and heartless, while heroic Western pilots fed starving Berliners with flour and chocolate from the sky.
Myth #1: “Russia’s economic growth was driven by foreigners.”