Gladimir Putin

Survival by Self-Immolation

The red flood which drowned the 3.8 million soldiers of Germany’s armies during Operation Barbarossa was not the creeping tide of the Red Army. Rather, it was a tidal wave of blood and transmission fluid, of Soviet sanguine sacrifice and industrial output which cascaded through the men and machines of the German Sixteenth Army, of […]

Prokudin-Gorskii: Connecting a Continent and Willing it into Prosperity

If cities like Novgorod and Vladivostok, Moscow and (what is today) St. Petersburg make up the beating hearts of Russia, vast infrastructure projects make up its veins and arteries, carrying people and materials across and amidst the world’s largest continent. Easily the most notable of these, the Trans-Siberian Railway winds for nearly six thousand miles […]