From 1932 to 1933 a man-made famine ravaged the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, claiming close to 4 million lives. Today, that famine is known as the Holodomor – “hunger death” or “death by hunger” in Ukrainian. As awareness of the famine has … Read more

In 1968–the year the Detroit Tigers won the World Series and one year before the first Woodstock festival–student protests erupted across the globe. In Czechoslovakia the year marked a brief period of gradual liberalization within the communist government, better known … Read more