CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: Derren Brown playing mind games? Stalin would love it By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:07 BST, 17 August 2020 | Updated: 02:08 BST, 17 August 2020 Derren Brown: 20 Years Of Mind Control Rating: A Suitable Boy Rating: Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin was so fascinated … Read more
A family heirloom that survived the Holocaust and escaped the rise of communism has been lost in the post while travelling through customs. The gold pendant was crafted by Vilém Werner, a Jewish Czech, for his niece, Eva Porges and featured her name. The heirloom, believed to have been crafted between 1927 and 1941, was … Read more
There is a photograph taken in 1937 which shows Stalin walking along the Moscow canal with three lieutenants. Yet in a version issued 12 months later, only two can be seen. The missing man is Nikolai Yezhov, a Soviet commissar who, executed in a purge, had vanished not just from office, but from the photo, too. … Read more
The deafening explosion that lit up the night sky over Tehran in the early hours of December 1, 1943, was heard across the Iranian capital. It would surely have been noticed by Winston Churchill, a notorious light sleeper, over in the British Embassy, although he might not have immediately realised its grim significance. The previous … Read more
The audacious plan to assassinate the Big Three in Tehran in 1943 has been told by New York Times best-selling author Howard Blum A group of Nazi-trained commandos almost managed to kill Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin during a top secret summit in Tehran, a new book has claimed. The book, Night … Read more
VE Day was delayed to keep Stalin happy and WWII could have ended 24 hours earlier as papers reveal that Winston Churchill was stopped from sharing news of Germany’s surrender US President Harry Truman wanted to ‘save snarl from Uncle Joe (Stalin)’ Truman was careful not to ‘rock the boat’ with the USSR during the … Read more