Analysis
Never Forgotten
Before my mom died I was already working on putting my thoughts together of 25 years ago. I was trying to take all the bits and pieces and craft them together. It may now be 25 years ago but to me it was just yesterday. People are now and for ages as well, been like never forget. I’ve always come back saying, I’ve never forgotten, maybe you have put it out of your mind and now need to remind yourself never to forget.
By WrittenWritRalf29 days ago in History
Beneath Moscow Lies a Second City: Hidden Palaces, Secret Tunnels, Stalin and a Metro Built to Impress the World
Above you, enormous crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling. The walls are covered with tons of rare marble from the Urals, the ceilings are adorned with gilded mosaics, and larger-than-life bronze statues surround you. And in the middle of all this luxury, reminiscent of the residences of the tsars, an ordinary subway train comes to a screeching halt every two minutes.
By Lenka Čihařová29 days ago in History
Forgotten Broumov: The Place Where Thousands of Russian Prisoners of War Found Their Death
In the middle of the Broumov fields stands a stone memorial surrounded by hundreds of silent graves. During the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian army built a huge and completely isolated prisoner-of-war camp here. It was not some small temporary collection point. More than 30,000 prisoners of war passed through this place.
By Lenka Čihařová30 days ago in History
Karel Hašler Died After Being Tortured in Mauthausen. The Testimony Is Chilling — and His Name Still Lives on in Sweets
Karel Hašler was a phenomenon of his time. He wrote songs that were sung all over the country, performed on stage, appeared in films and managed to reach audiences of several generations. During his life, he composed hundreds of songs, many of which became so popular that people simply considered them part of Czech folk culture.
By Lenka Čihařová30 days ago in History
Murdering Mothers: America Reopens Its Most Terrifying Stories
The Crimes We Cannot Understand When a mother kills her own child, society seems to lose the ability to use ordinary words for a moment. A mother is supposed to protect. She is supposed to stand behind her child when they are afraid. She should hold their hand when they are sick. And she should be the last person in the world a child should ever have to be afraid of.
By Lenka Čihařová30 days ago in History
When a Mother's Instinct Fails: The Saddest Cases in Czech Criminal History
When this protective instinct fails, people tend to panic. Discussions on social media quickly fill with frightening comments asking whether we are facing some kind of new and terrible epidemic.
By Lenka Čihařováabout a month ago in History
The Accidental Discovery Behind Corn Flakes
They were created at the end of the 19th century in an American sanatorium as part of a strict religious diet, which was supposed to free patients from bodily desires and cure them from what the puritan society of that time considered moral decline.
By Lenka Čihařováabout a month ago in History
How the USA Secretly Tested Mustard Gas on Its Own Soldiers Based on Race
Few people, however, know that very similar and deeply unethical experiments on human beings also took place in the democratic West. And what is perhaps the saddest part – the American military did not carry them out on prisoners of war, but on its own soldiers, who were systematically divided according to the colour of their skin.
By Lenka Čihařováabout a month ago in History
Alternative Reconstruction and Assumption Sensitivity (The Global Catastrophe Prediction Framework - Part 2). AI-Generated.
The Global Catastrophe Prediction Framework distinguishes presently observed evidence from the historical conditions, mechanisms, and rate histories used to transform that evidence into a reconstruction of the past.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in History
