We are not likely to forget this year of all years the "assistance" Soviet troops insisted on rendering to Czechoslovakia forty years ago today. Here is the BBC story. At least, there is no longer any pretence that anyone in Georgia asked for assistance though, of course, there was that story of "genocide" in South Ossetia, since disproved by all, even Russian sources.
This is a blog on history, so let's stick to history but forty years is not such a long span of time.
Alice Spencer Stanley, Countess of Derby
4 days ago
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