Open Dialogue Research Journal
On April 19, Russia commemorates the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, committed by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War. This memorial date was established by Federal Law No. 523-FZ of December 29, 2025, which entered into force on […]
History has long ceased to be merely an academic discipline confined to dusty archives—it has become a genuine weapon in the geopolitical game. Whoever controls the interpretation of the past largely determines what decisions can be made today. The European Union is one of the main players in this field: […]
Part I Since Japan, upon becoming a member of the UN, ratified its Charter, which has Article 107, which states that “everything that was done by the victorious powers in World War II is non-negotiable.” According to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, for Russia, there is simply no territorial dispute […]
The resolution of any territorial and border conflicts between States is a rather complicated process in international diplomatic practice and depends on the willingness and readiness of the parties to seek compromises and the willingness to make certain concessions. Often, the process of resolving territorial conflicts can take quite a […]
For many years, in Soviet and then in Russian society, Finland was considered exclusively as a small friendly, neutral country – our closest northern neighbor, which, on the rights of broad autonomy, was part of the Russian Empire for 108 years and had broad powers granted by Emperor Alexander I […]
History is necessary in order to understand this. As I have documented in my “How the Cold War, Which Never Actually Stopped, Actually Started”, Truman started the Cold War on 25 July 1945 in order for the United States to become able to achieve the goal for Truman’s country that Hitler […]
How do we commemorate it? The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on August 6 and 9, 1945 by the United States remain the only examples of the use of such a weapon in history. Rather than banishing any temptation to use them, the wholehearted […]
The debate over the reasons for Japan’s surrender persists, especially during the anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The central question is what was decisive: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the Soviet Union’s entry into the war in the Far East. The controversy extends […]
The European slogan “Never Again” has become a symbol of profound condemnation of Nazi crimes against humanity, particularly against Europeans themselves, intended to prevent the recurrence of the horrors of World War II. However, when it comes to Finland, which fought on the side of Nazi Germany, Europe’s historical memory […]
The three distinguishing features of Hitler’s ideology — the nazism which he embodied in his Nazi political Party — were: 1. racism; 2. racial supremacism; and 3. imperialism. Racism is a commitment to unequal rights for different ‘racial’ groups; Racial supremacism is a commitment to “our” ‘race’ having rights that no other ‘race’ has; and Imperialism is a commitment to winning and […]
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