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We are delighted to announce that the prize ceremony for the current essay competition on the Nazi-Soviet Pact will take place at the Polish Embassy.
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How many people are aware of what happened at Tiananmen Square? I strongly recommend this astonishing speech by Kate Adie speech at an event we put on for the Museum of Totalitarianism: youtu.be/c_IhzrCxJBA
Here’s the three minute highlight: youtube.com/shorts/HJTwBKVcU…
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He saved 20,000 Jews from Hitler. Then Stalin's secret police took him, cremated him, and lied about it for nearly 80 years.
A Swedish diplomat outmaneuvered one totalitarian regime in Budapest, only to disappear inside the other. 🧵
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Babyn Yar.
85 years since the tragedy.
One of the largest Nazi mass-murder sites in Europe. A place of profound pain and of our remembrance of all victims of the Holocaust. On September 29–30, 1941 alone, nearly 34,000 Jews were murdered here. At Babyn Yar, the Nazis also killed Roma, Ukrainian nationalists, members of the underground resistance, prisoners of war and patients of a psychiatric hospital. In total, an estimated 100,000 innocent people were killed here during the occupation.
This tragedy reminds us how important it is to stand up to evil and to regimes that place no value on human life. It reminds us why we must never turn a blind eye to terror and atrocities, and why we must always support the true defenders of life.
Today, I honored the memory of those killed in the Nazi mass shootings. Eternal memory to all the innocent victims.
We are currently working on a paper about changing the national curriculum. One history teachers told us, "More needs to come out than to go in!"
Another teacher said that the current curriculum for citizenship ‘is absolutely dire. It’s so inaccessible! The students can't stand it.'
It is not easy to define fascism. There's a reason for that, says @TimothyDSnyder. Fascism is "deliberately anti-rationalistic". This is a part of an excellent lecture series. More details here: historyoftotalitarianism.com…
Today is the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 (also known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact). It was the starting gun for the Second World War.
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Next weekend only, our recreation of the unknown protester who stood in front of a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square will be on show in front of our T-55 tank. Members of team will be there on Saturday. At the One:One Collection in Kent.
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Today a professional photographer took photos of 'tank man' - our reproduction of the man who stood in front of a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square - outside the House of Parliament. The tank man is kind of "unknown protestor" against totalitarianism.
One passer-by thought he was a permanent sculpture there. Not a bad idea.
Roger Moorhouse argues that Stalin, just as much as Hitler, wanted to tear up the Versailles settlement and was an enemy of western liberal democracy.
Roger is the author of "The Devil's Alliance" about the Nazi-Soviet Pact and was speaking at our one-day professional development course on June 16th, 2026.
Tiananmen Square: highlight of the eye-witness account of the 1989 massacre by Kate Adie, the chief news correspondent of the BBC at the time.
On Tuesday, we will be hosting a one-day professional development course for history teachers on the subject of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. It is fully subscribed and will take place at the Imperial War Museum. We are now offering courses every year. Any teacher who would like receive notification of the one next year, please email [email protected] .
The Tiananmen Massacre is a forbidden subject in China today which makes this eyewitness account all the more important. Kate Adie, BBC reporter, was there.
youtu.be/c_IhzrCxJBA
Today we unveiled our recreation of the man who stood in front of a column of tanks the day after the Tiananmen Massacre. Kate Adie, the famous BBC news reporter, made a speech recalling how she had seen unarmed people fall down - shot - as the massacre proceeded. People were astonished that the Chinese army, the PLA, was shooting at their own people. Every effort was made to stop the event becoming known around the world. Film footage was smuggled out. Kate herself was lucky to get out alive.
It was a privilege to host guests including Lord Alton and Sir Iain Duncan Smith M.P.. One of the speakers was Lee Wing Tat who was part of the operation to help leaders of the Tiananmen protests to escape from certain imprisonment by secretly taking fast boats to Hong Kong and going on from there to free countries.
Privileged today to be with @MPIainDS at the unveiling of the new statue of Tank Man. Congratulations to @JGBartholomew and Museum of Communist Terror for this important initiative. Wonderful to hear the distinguished journalist Kate Adie describe her firsthand experiences as she watched the massacre unfold Tiananmen Square and the plea of protestors to her to “tell the world.” She is right that “we must never forget.”@bbcworldservice @CitySamuel @ftchina @edwardlucas @CECCgov @chinaaid
