N. LYGEROS PhD

When she saw the first traces of passion she got an idea...

The life was too short to be wasted...

How to stay alive? The question wasn’t the initial...

There was no frustration, no temptation because everything was free...

Every little thing was important for her. ...

Because you have faith the essence was simple ...

Nothing was invisible for her. The traces of passion were obvious...

At the start, he was surprised by the request...

For you it was a human necessity. Never before have you felt this...

When you discovered the essence you wanted to save it...

Όσο παράδοξο κι αν φαίνεται αρχικά η έννοια της ειρήνης...

Η έννοια της ελευθερίας είναι θεμελιακή για τον άνθρωπο...

Even if it is unusual to call it this the Grand Strategy is a force from above...

With these words, you understand the deep love for freedom...

Our love of freedom is a non-ordinary one. And for us it’s impossible to sacrifice it even for peace...

Nazism and Communism were and are against freedom. They never had a problem with peace because it’s only the end of the war with the result they wanted...

The question is not if you are from the West or the East, but if you love freedom. Some people never had the opportunity to be free because the birth was...

The freedom had always been dangerous for all the totalitarian systems. But a lot of them had chosen the symbol of peace...

The promise was clear. Call me when you need it...

Everybody knows that in the warrior’s code there is no surrender because the soul never stops...

Barbarity can be black or red the important for Mankind is...

It’s really funny to see that one of the first critics against capitalism i.e. accumulation by dispossession became a motto for communism. Its metamorphoses didn’t try to apply the notion of equality but to use...

Communism started with simple ideas but their combinations were incompatible. This generated a structural error. But its believers tried to convert it while they were saying that the problem was the reality...

From the start, communism was presented like a therapy to the illness of the society. And communists in their imagination where represented always as healthy people....

The Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962 was such a great disaster that it implied the Great Chinese Famine which was the largest famine in human history...

Far away from China everything looks fine. But after a zoom we can see many territorial disputes between the People’s Republic of China and neighboring states...

To understand the mental schema of the US strategic ambiguity we have to keep in mind the following five points. They belong to the report of the Congressional Research Service....

The first generation had as ideology the Mao Zedong Thought...

The sickle is now obsolete. But communism still uses it...

Communism used and uses a hammer and sickle as symbol. It used the sickle to kill the interior resistance...

Barbarity is certainly powerful at least in space...

Even if it’s not obvious for you at least from the beginning...

If your question is what shall I do?...

When we are fighting against barbarity we have to be ONE, in the sense of Mankind...

In the USSR there was always somebody to hate. And a tool was necessary for that...

There are so many things to say about the NSA. But it’s important to remember its past to understand its future...

The Soviet Union was from the beginning a terrorist state and what was suspected at the time, is now known...

It’s important from the beginning of the study about terrorism that this notion isn’t necessarily negative for every system. For black or red barbarity it was only a tool for the system, not even a weapon...

Twice, the US saved Europe. It wasn't natural...

War and Tyranny were mentioned by Winston Churchill as the two great dangers which menace the homes of the people. Both of them were used...

We know that it was impossible to know the future in the Ante Cold War even if people like...

From the start totalitarian regimes are characterized by walls. That’s why we have to break them...

It’s hard to convince people and especially the innocent...

In totalitarian systems, they consider that the existence of souls is not important. But this is a strategic error...

We have decided that we will survive any totalitarian regime, system of barbarity. This is the starting point of every...

In slavery states, art is always filled with health and happiness. This motif represents an obsession. Everyone has to be healthy and of course happy. There is no choice. But in Mankind, the situation is totally different...

If you really want to save lives even in this war of Mankind...

Even if we are only humans we can resist to barbarity...

In the active measures, we can find the promotion of terrorism...

The Soviet propaganda was made to justify political repressions...

Barbarity with Soviet Union declared war to Mankind....

The slogan of the Soviet spirit is always: ain’t my fault...

In September 2004, Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin...

Kremlin’s denial is constant from the past until now...

Always the same idea in the core of the Soviet system...

Good propaganda had to instill hope. This hope was the new society...

In the propaganda of the Soviet Union the idea of the  newman was crucial. In this system, everything had to be new...

At the beginning, the Kremlin said that the invasion in Ukraine was only a special military operation and that it was a duty to liberate the poor Ukrainians from the government of Kyiv...

After so many errors and failures the Soviet spirit changed because it saw that its believers started to lose their religion. With all the atrocities and even the genocides, it was impossible to continue with the same way...

When we are fighting against totalitarian regimes it's important to have access to historical archives. Because of the supremacy of propaganda in space, time became the place of the resistance...

As Heaven was impossible for Soviets, they had to create artificial heaven to convince their believers. It was the place of forced happiness. And it was the same for all the workers. That’s why forced work was...

The first invasion of Cyprus can be considered as the execution...

1964: Change of phase. Turkey became a priority of the Soviet Union. The Soviets started talking about the rights of the two national communities. Gromyko said even more...

After the independence the interests of Soviets in Cypriot affairs became strategic...

We have to protect and help peoples to maintain their free institutions...

Before the declassification of Soviet – era documents it was impossible to prove in an objective way...

The Greek Democratic Army was completely controlled by the Greek Communist Party and it was assisted  by the new communist regimes of Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia always, under the control of Big Brother i.e. the Soviet Union...

Europe was always the target of the Soviet expansion The US knew this dogma...

Yalta was a defeat for some countries that were convinced to belong to the Eastern Bloc. But Yalta rejected them officially. The communists of those countries had felt that it was possible to get one victory...

From the start due to the low level of the strategy which was fragile, the Soviet Union had to use propaganda. For its system deception was natural. When it’s impossible to change the reality, it’s possible to change its interpretation in the brain of the victims. The paradox is that the first victims belong to the system. They were of course...

Chinese forces are playing go game with Taiwan. They have essentially encircled Taiwan with their military exercises. It’s a demonstration of their power in a rather direct way...

In the desert, ideology is useless...

At the start of the invasion in Ukraine, China accepted even its timing...

Freedom is forbidden in red States. But Democracy is simply unknown...

For the Soviet spirit the soul is forbidden. That’s why even now, for Russia...

Human essence is precious because it’s not a human creation...

For Russia it’s impossible to say the truth and especially for its own casualties. This is a tradition from the Soviet Union...

It's strange that for the moment only four countries are labeled....

Against the means of propaganda, we have to be cold warriors even after the end and the fall of the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet dreams are still here. They always use the same techniques i.e. victimization...

It’s difficult to realize how the mechanism of partisan bias works but it’s important to study it if we want to understand the past of the Cold war but also its future. Because the moves of Russia or China...

Usually we use the expression cyclic form as an attempt of musical composition in which a theme occurs in more than one movement as a unifying device. But it is of course possible to study it in politics...

Simple rules can create complex situations and not only in strategic games. In real life it’s possible to find many examples of that type. Concretely this means that it is easier to try to understand...

WWI: 1914 - 1918 WWII: 1939 - 1945...

The Europeans wanted, of course, to ensure that the United States would automatically come to their assistance. This was clear from the beginning. They knew what they had done in WW I and WWII and they had...

Due to Soviet propaganda, normal people are convinced that the creation of NATO was an american idea. In fact, it’s false. The Treaty between France and the United Kingdom in 1947 and its generalization...

In the Soviet spirit everything was possible in order to confirm the supremacy of this unique party...

The struggle was clear. At that time the problem was the contamination...

When we study all the dirty operations of the Soviet Union, it’s natural to have some questions of credibility of this system...

It’s impossible to imagine how many Soviet dirty operations were even in the United States of America. The KGB tried to influence the Communist Party USA, Martin Luther King Junior. But it failed...

The Operation Denver was an active measure disinformation campaign. It was an idea of the KGB in the 1980s. They wanted to show that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS...

From the beginning, in the Ante Cold War, the Soviet intelligence was interested in Britain, France, Germany and of course the United States in the fields of military and industrial affairs...

In Russia and in China a lot of people said that for so many years that History is dead or even that it had to be killed...

If you feel the love of Mankind it’s impossible for you to accept the positions...

According to the Russian government’s declassified material, the Soviet Union tested about 1000 nuclear devices between 1949 and 1990...

The contributions of the Soviet espionage were huge in different fields. And this point is in fact a proof that the Soviet system knew the level of its scientists. It didn’t trust them in finding how to create...

The US had the intelligence to create the atomic bomb and the Soviet Union the spies to copy it. It was already a big difference. But the US had also the counterintelligence which was intended to decrypt...

As usual, in Soviet Union, everything was classified and especially the Soviet atomic bomb project. Of course, this one had nothing to do with the Manhattan Project...

It's important to keep in mind a decision which has changed the history of the world. Because for Humanity it was a step of conscience. It's death wasn't more a taboo. People had to know that even...

It's not a question of willingness. In the battle, you will need your belt...

When you are so close to the source you can feel its power ...

The iron love was ready. This was the first surprise for you...

You never thought that a smile could be iconic...

The contact with the Giant was strange. The first time it was simply incredible...

Der Kontakt mit dem Riesen war seltsam. Das erste Mal war es einfach unglaublich...

Only in the desert you are not alone. Because there you can feel the end of your dream...

Δεν θα βρεις αλλού αγάπη σαν αυτή που πρόδωσες ...

Είναι βαρύς ο ουρανός κι αν κλαίει απελπισμένα ...

Το έλεγε ο ποιητής ότι μια φορά μονάχα φτάνει ...

Πάνω στον πίνακα του ποιητή κλείσαν οι ουρανοί ...

The Russian forces as a soviet system, want to use the nuclear fear to demolish Western will to provide military support to a Ukraine counterattack. As they don’t want to directly use...

Στην αρχή δεν αντιλαμβάνεσαι πόσο ουσιαστικός είναι...

Ήταν σπάνιοι αυτοί που συνειδητοποιούσαν ότι η διαθήκη ήταν πάντα...

Το σκληρό ξύλο ήταν αρχικά ανώνυμο. Αλλά μετά το λάξευμα που έγινε...

The command was free. He looks at his paintbrushes...

Don’t waste your time with the news. You need only Deep History to understand the connection with Grand Strategy...

World War I was a victory at the end. It was the same for World War II...

Der Erste Weltkrieg war am Ende ein Sieg.  Das gleiche geschah für den Zweiten Weltkrieg...

Special military operations are a way to make dirty wars. Invasions are illegal. Everybody knows that...

Spezielle militärische Operationen sind eine Möglichkeit, schmutzige Kriege zu führen...

The narrative of Russia about the US is clearly a fake history from the beginning. Russia as a victim in its eyes considered that as a country had to fight to exist...

Many people avoid considering Mankind’s position. They prefer to say that everything is possible and that we should put any restriction. They want to be considered as open minded guys...

As proxy wars are no more sufficient and efficient for Russia and China, they prefer to be directly implicated in the targeted countries. That’s why the free intelligence services, i.e. from Europe and America...

With all those elements it was natural to introduce the expression Second Cold War. But it has not a unique sense...

With the destruction of the past, the People’s Republic of China celebrated the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party. It is a part of what the government described as the Chinese Dream...

At the end of the Cold War, communism ended in Afghanistan...

Declassification by default: 10 years. Declassification for review with nine narrow exceptions: 25 years...

The Cold War began with the Second Red Scare in 1947. The first one was in 1917 and it was the flashpoint of the Ante Cold War. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of this kind of war...

She was driving a Mustang but in her mind...

On the road, in the car, they were so close that they could feel their legs...

When you have nothing to lose it’s easy to fight...

Imagine a free state. Then conceive a manipulation...

It is difficult to accept that a Civil War could be in fact only a proxy war of the Cold War. Because this means that for decades you lived in the frame of propaganda and you thought that it was important to know which of the enemies...

The partition of Europe wasn't symmetrical. On the one hand we had a free Alliance on the other a forced cooperation. The first was a need of Europe, the second a pressure against Europe...

Stalin wanted to control the small brothers via an artificial cooperation in Central Europe. The Soviet Union founded the Comecon in 1949 with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania...

Europe was weak. And the totalitarian systems strong...

Μόνο αν χαρίσεις μια καρδιά θα καταλάβεις τι σημαίνει...

At the beginning you wanted just to sea. But after it was impossible for you...

The flashpoint was the profile. It was a necessity...

Δεν ήξερε ότι έπρεπε να ζητήσει χάρες για ν’ αλλάξει ο κόσμος και να γίνει καλός...

Όταν είδε για πρώτη φορά το φως δεν είχε φανταστεί πως η πηγή του...

Κανείς δεν είχε πιάσει τόσο ζεστές πέτρες. Ήταν σαν μαύρα βόλια της φύσης...

Όταν τόσα χρόνια δεν πίστευε σε κανέναν γιατί ποτέ η κοινωνία δεν της συμπαραστάθηκε...

Δίπλα της και στην άλλη πισίνα που αντίκριζε το παρελθόν και το μέλλον...

Ποτέ δεν είχε νιώσει πάνω του αυτά τα δάκρυα τα καυτά...

Πάνω στα ράφια τα τετράδια ήταν στιβασμένα ...

Ο μαύρος μπαγλαμάς είχε έρθει από το παρελθόν...

Δεν έπρεπε να περιμένει να του ζητούν χάρες γιατί πολλοί και πολλές είχαν αναστολές ...

Είχε προσέξει το γυαλί πάνω στο κάδρο. Ήξερε ότι ήταν για την προστασία του έργου...

Το κεραμικό είχε γεννηθεί τη νύχτα χάρη στην προσφορά του φωτός ...

Δεν αρνήθηκε ποτέ ν’ ακούσει τον πόνο των άλλων γιατί ήξερε πως ήταν ο μόνος τρόπος ...

The Lend-Lease Act was an Act to promote the Defense of the United States. It was a policy of supplying Great-Britain, the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil and material between 1941 and 1945...

Stalin and Litvinov decided to promote in an artificial manner, popular fronts against capitalist countries. This was done already in the late 1930s, so in the Ante Cold War period...

In a subversive way of thinking, to be against the war was a tool to design a new kind of war. The first one was presented as an ethnic problem which was irrelevant for the ideological approach of the reality...

Psychological warfare or even Psychological operations were weapons in the mental war long time ago and of course before the Cold War. They were used to create a planned psychological reaction...

Η νίκη του φωτός δεν είναι μία αφαιρετική έννοια στην πίστη...

Πολλοί δεν θέλουν να κάνουν λάθη. Κι όμως τελικά κάνουν...

Ο ξεσηκωμός των λουλουδιών άρχισε όταν θέλησαν να αξιοποιήσουν την προσφορά...

Ο μύθος γεννήθηκε ανάμεσα στα λουλούδια...

Το πλαίσιο εντελώς ελεύθερο. Επαρκούσε να είναι ουσιαστικό...

Δεν είχε προσέξει τις λέξεις του τραγουδιού αλλά τώρα που είχε την εικόνα από τα κατεχόμενα του μυαλού, έζησε την αποκάλυψη. Δεν είχε ξεχάσει το πρώτο άνοιγμα που είχε δει...

Ποιος μπορούσε να φανταστεί ποια είναι η μνήμη ενός αγάλματος; Κι όμως σκέφτηκε ότι σίγουρα είχε κάτι μέσα του. Αυτό ήθελε να μάθει αλλά δεν περίμενε να το δει με τρόπο τόσο ζωντανό...

Ακόμα κι αν δεν έπρεπε να παραμείνουν σιωπηλοί, δεν ήταν μια δυσκολία που τους εμπόδιζε αφού την είχαν επιλέξει. Άλλωστε ήταν τρόπος να ζήσουν πιο έντονα τις άλλες αισθήσεις...

Είναι σπάνιο να ξέρεις πότε αφήνεις ένα ίχνος που να έχει σημασία...

The Ante Cold War shows that the Soviet Union always wanted to be a superpower. But as it was impossible in reality, it used mupets to support this idea. Its mupets were the small brothers and...

For Winston Churchill the situation was clear. The Bolsheviks had betrayed the Allies with the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. So he tried many times to convince the government to take the offensive against the Bolsheviks...

For the Soviet Union nothing was a borderline. Any move on its chessboard was justified with ideology but it was always the same point of view: the consolidation of its power no matter the prejudices...

After the German-Soviet Treaty of Rapallo in 1922, the Treaty of Berlin was signed in 1926. But all this was nothing in comparison with the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939. Because it had two levels...

For the Soviet Union the label kulak was used to destroy even the trace of the ownership. The Soviets classified peasants as kulaks to erase them. The dekulakization was in fact a more general process...

As it was impossible to prove at that time that the implication of the Soviets, at the end of the year the Union ...

Kemal was a radical dictator and a man able to do a genocide in an efficient way with rather small help. For the Soviets he was a very good investment. They saw him as a small dictator who could clean...

Before the official creation of the Soviet Union, it was very important for the Soviets to start the control of areas at the borders of their chessboard. The central idea was to create a buffer zone with...

In order to avoid its isolation, the Soviet System tried to create communist revolutions in the countries of its enemies. It set up the Comintern. The Communist International was totally controlled...

Even if the majority was blind and underestimated this red mentation which was from the beginning against history, some people realized that it was important to resist. But it was difficult to convince the others...

From the beginning, the Soviets had in mind a total war in the sense of Carl von Clausewitz. They wanted the total destruction of the past and not only in Russia but everywhere in Europe...

Το χαρακτικό δεν είχε ζήσει ποτέ την ουσία από κοντά ...

Να 'χες τα χρόνια αυτά μονάχα ζήτησες...

Τα συμβούλια δεν είχαν καμία σχέση με τη χώρα πάνω στην οποία βρίσκονταν. Είχαν μηδενίσει την έννοια του Έθνους και της Πατρίδας...

Ο στόχος δεν μπορούσε να επιτευχθεί χωρίς τον αφανισμό του λαού της θάλασσας ...

Η Συνθήκη για το κόμμα δεν ήταν απολύτως τίποτα ...

Όποια και να ήταν η ερμηνεία της υπόθεσης Κορνίλοφ...

Η ανταπόκριση δεν άργησε να έρθει κι ήταν σαν να είχε πιει...

Δεν είχε δει ποτέ τέτοιο κέρασμα. Πρόσεξε το χαρακτηριστικό ποτήρι...

Το χειραγωγημένο σύστημα έπαιξε τον ρόλο του υπέρ του δέοντος. Ένωσε εναντίον του όλες τις κριτικές όλων των ξένων δυνάμεων χωρίς να προκαλέσει κανένα κύμα, καμία αρνητική επίπτωση στο αρχικό σύστημα...

Δεν είχε ακόμα πλάσει την έννοια της επιχείρησης, τουλάχιστον επίσημα, αλλά ήδη τη λειτουργούσε σε πρακτικό επίπεδο. Έπρεπε να δημιουργήσει μία μεγάλη ανισορροπία στην ευρύτερη περιοχή...

Άρχισε με τον χρυσό και τον ...

Από την αρχή το σύστημα ήταν ...

Όσο κι αν προσπαθούμε δεν μπορούμε...

Σε πλήγωσε τη νύχτα μια μικρή κοπέλα...

Δεν το περίμενες επειδή τα είχες δώσει όλα...

Κι ας σε κυνηγούν όλοι στη γειτονιά και σε κοροϊδεύουν όλα τα παιδιά...

Ποτέ δεν μπόρεσα να πιστέψω τα λόγια του μπεκρή...

Κάθε βήμα σου παρόλο που είσαι μόνο είκοσι χρονών...

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