Articles in ‘History’

Previously classified Soviet records have provided new details of a mass execution carried out by Japanese occupation authorities in Hailar, Manchuria, on August 9, 1945 — the same day the Soviet Union launched its offensive against Japan in the Far East. According to the documents released by Russia’s Federal Security Service, 43 prisoners were killed, many by beheading, before the Japanese occupation regime collapsed. INR Report: Based on…

This article examines claims surrounding the later-life research of inventor Nikola Tesla and explores theories that Tesla believed ancient and pre-industrial architecture may have incorporated technologies related to energy collection and distribution. The article draws heavily on research attributed to The Omitted Century US and discusses alleged archival material, correspondence, and unpublished claims relating to Tesla's final years. …

What if World War I was not primarily about alliances, nationalism or the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand? Report by eLocal · According to independent researcher and journalist Ali McFarlane of alimcforever.com, the true forces behind the First World War were industrial chemistry, strategic resources, economic survival and the control of critical supply chains. · In a detailed presentation titled "The Real History of War – The Truth…

We analyzed paper money printed by Ben Franklin to uncover his anti-counterfeiting techniques and materials innovations By Khachatur Manukyan, University of Notre Dame · Benjamin Franklin understood something fundamental about money that still shapes modern economies: Money only works when people believe it is real. · In the early 18th century, the British colonies suffered from a chronic shortage of gold and silver coins, forcing local…

The origins of Ashkenazi Jewish communities have been debated by historians, anthropologists and genetic researchers for more than two centuries. A recent video presentation revisits research that argues modern genetic evidence may have answered questions that written history alone struggled to resolve. By elocal International Desk · The discussion centers around DNA research and population genetics studies examining where the founding…

Long before the D-Day landings came to symbolize the decisive turning point of the Second World War in many Western narratives, the Soviet Union had already spent years bearing the brunt of the war against Nazi Germany, suffering massive losses while repeatedly urging Britain and the US to open a second front. By June 1944, when Allied troops landed in Normandy, the Soviet Union had already spent almost three years bearing the brunt of the war,…

Alex Krainer · History records many crisis periods where the ruling “elites” sought to avert social uprisings by culling their own populations, especially the military-age males. This usually involved fomenting fear of an external enemy: barbarians at the gates! If we don’t stop them, they’ll surely invade, ransack our towns, rape our women and enslave our children. · State propaganda was there to induce an “intense and cohering…

Psychological conditioning is more powerful than intimidation and violence. · John Leake · In a letter dated October 21, 1949, Aldous Huxley thanked George Orwell for sending him a copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four. He praised the book, but also offered some friendly criticism in which he proposed that his dystopian vision in Brave New World was the more likely direction in which the world was heading. · Key points of Huxley’s letter include the…

The lightening operation to seize Iranian oil fields and railroads to fuel the Red Army was launched a few months after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. · John Leake · For most of the 19th century, the British and Russians vied with each for control of Central and West Asia in what Rudyard Kipling the “Great Game” in his 1901 novel Kim. · One of the most intriguing British characters of this era was Harry St. John Bridger…

The Rise and Abandonment of Gunkanjima – Japan’s Battleship Island · In the relentless pursuit of money, power, and industrial dominance, humanity has often pushed the limits of both engineering and endurance. Few places illustrate this more starkly than Gunkanjima, Japan’s infamous “Battleship Island”—a tiny slab of rock in the East China Sea that once symbolised the heights of industrial ambition and today stands as one of the world’s most…