Last night members of the Pussy Riot Band were on the Brendan O'Connor Show. Two most impressive young women. They are visting world capitals to highlight the lack of freedom in Russia.
Yesterday an opposition leader in Ukraine spoke at the Munich Conference on Security.
Events laced in irony.
Today is the 71st anniversary of the ending of the battle at Stalingrad. On February 2, 1943 the commander of the Sixth Army, FriedrichPaulus surrendered on the Volga. Surely the turning point in World War ll.
Later, in just less than two years, it would be a Ukrainian division of the Soviet Army which arrived at Auschwitz.
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