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...

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

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...

During the Reagan administration, we were allied with both Iraq and Afghanistan … In the  Ronald Reagan  era, America had two allies th...

“ Poyekhali !” (“Let's go!”) – Yuri Gagarin , the first man in space, at the moment of the Vostok 1 rocket launch that first sent h...

“Is this a game, or is it real?” – Quote from “WarGames” (1983) , a fictional movie about a close call with nuclear war, which came out ...

Warning: This post contains some mature themes in it. Although I have tried to cover them tastefully, there's no way to take them out ...

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

“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture … ‘ And I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ’ I suppose we all thought that, one w...

“Bond … JAMES Bond.” In May 1960, an  American   U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Russians over Soviet territory , which caused so...

"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...

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

"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere ...

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