N. LYGEROS PhD

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 ...

The goal could not be achieved without the extinction of the people of the sea ...

The Treaty was absolutely nothing as far as the political Party was concerned ...

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

Whatever the interpretation of the Kornilov case was, one thing was certain. ...

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...

The manipulated system has played its role unduly well. It united against itself all the criticisms of all the foreign powers without causing any wave...

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...

It had not as yet coined the concept of the operation, at least formally, but it was already functioning it, at a practical level...

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...

It began with gold and armor. It continued with surrendering territories that were not its own...

Άρχισε με τον χρυσό και τον ...

From the beginning the system was barbaric...

Από την αρχή το σύστημα ήταν ...