Ivan the Terrible is Not the Reason to Oppose this War

Since at least World War II days, when the huge Russian war machine was on the march to Berlin, Ivan, that typical peasant soldier of the Red army, has been known for his casual violence to civilians. Catherine Merridale in her book Ivan’s War shows us an unvarnished picture of the brutality of Ivan’s life during the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany and the subsequent march to Berlin by Stalin’s massive army.

As we are seeing in Ukraine, the Russian army is a blunt instrument that is careless of the lives of its own soldiers…