Cashing in on the Nazi leader’s brand name, authorities in Ukraine have decided to open up one of Hitler’s Eastern Front military headquarters and run it as a tourist attraction. Situated in a pine forest just north of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, Führerhauptquartier Wehrwolf – and no, that’s not a spelling mistake but a portmanteau [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ukraine’
Hitler The Tourist Icon
Posted in The Nazi Dictatorship, tagged Führerhauptquartier Wehrwolf, Hitler, Nazis, Second World War, Tourism, Ukraine, Vinnytsia on January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Muslim Women In Ukraine
Posted in Islamosphere, tagged Crimea, Hijab, Islam In The Ukraine, Islamic Clothing, Islamosphere, Muslim Women Clothing, Muslimah, Muslims, Ukraine, Women In Islam on August 13, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Yes, that’s Ukraine without the definite article. Anyway, there’s an interesting interview with some of the country’s Muslimahs in yesterday’s Kyiv Post, which is one for the Islamophiles – and Islamophobes – out there. Just about keeping within the website’s stringent copyright requirements, here’s some highlights (make of them what you will): “When I get [...]
Stalin And Co. Found Guilty Of Genocide
Posted in Back In The USSR, tagged Ethnic Cleansing, Famine, Genocide, Holodomor, Kaganovich, Kiev, Molotov, Soviet Union, Stalin, Starvation, Ukraine, USSR on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As Ukrainians brace themselves for the first round of presidential elections, which will no doubt result in a showdown between Viktor Yanukovych and the spectacularly gorgeous Yulia Tymoshenko (left), Viktor Yushchenko, their current president, has praised a Kiev appeal court’s decision to find former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and a number of his subordinates guilty [...]
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