Sparks Commentary

The Cold War affected both sides of the  twentieth century’s  greatest conflict, in every region of the world. These included largely neutra...

A war that killed at least 15 million people began with two quick gunshots in the Balkans . The fighting of  World War One  began in the  B...

“From the day of exchanging the ratification of the present treaties, there shall be perfect peace and amity between his majesty the empero...

“By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN UNION , hereinafter called ‘the Union’, on which the Mem...

Note: The Russians usually refer to their own part of World War II as the “Great Patriotic War.” Some Eastern European countries use this s...

"While the Wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system - for all the world to see - we...

"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate ... Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall !" - President Ronald Reagan, standing at the Brandenbur...

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an IRON CURTAIN  has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all...

Americans have rightly been interested in their own country's history for a long time - both for the moving stories it contains, and ...

"He who ignores the lessons of history is doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana Soviets' first atomic bomb test, 19...

"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible ove...

"The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[,] desirous of strengthening the ca...

Tiananmen Square , China 1989 "China isn't all that bad," some say ... The critics of communism have long pointed o...

Karl Marx, the chief founder of communism Does communism cause poverty? And how can this be tested? Karl Marx What counts as...