World War II Soviet Armed Forces (3)

En julio de 1980 Daniel Barenboim y la Orquesta de Paris viajaron a Buenos Aires para dar una serie de conciertos en el Teatro Colón. A pesar del triunfo artístico excepcional de la gira, la solidaridad de un grupo de músicos de la orquesta con los artistas desaparecidos por la dictadura militar desembocó en un grave incidente diplomático entre Argentina y Francia. El episodio, dramatizado en los medios de prensa y detallado en las fuentes diplomáticas, mostró el poder transgresor de los músicos ante un poder autoritario y planteó preguntas fundamentales sobre la significación...

Crash landing in San Sabestián, Spain in 1945, SS-Standartenführer Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle (1906-1994) narrowly escaped death from his native Belgium and the Allied forces. Stripped of his Belgian citizenship and sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the German side of WWII, Degrelle lived the rest of his life in exile in Spain, harbored unofficially by Franco's government. During these forty-nine years in exile, Degrelle never expressed any regret for his place in the war, nor did he remain silent as fantastic narratives were woven about the events of the war and the...

“La historia de la revolución, como toda historia, debe, ante todo, relatar los hechos y su desarrollo. Mas esto no basta. Es menester que del relato se desprenda con claridad por qué las cosas sucedieron de ese modo y no de otro. Los sucesos históricos no pueden considerarse como una cadena de aventuras ocurridas al azar ni engarzarse en el hilo de una moral preconcebida, sino que deben someterse al criterio de las leyes que los gobiernan. El autor del presente libro entiende que su misión consiste precisamente en sacar a la luz esas leyes.”

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