Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, previously holding the position from 1999 until 2008. He was also the Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.
A year of awakening to the fascist threat
America has been down this road before The biggest story of 2023 was the threat to American democracy posed by Donald Trump and his supporters.
At its heart lurks a white Christian nationalism that targets racial and religious minorities and LGBTQ people. 45, however, did not start the fire.
America’s history is pocked with horrific episodes in addition to slavery. Here are some examples: • The Trail of Tears, which began in 1831, saw the forcible displacement of 60,000 members of five Native American tribes by the U.S.
government. • The Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa in 1921 destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the Greenwood District, a thriving Black community. • Hundreds of thousands of Mexican-Americans were scapegoated for the Great Depression by the Hoover administration and deported. • A rise in American fascism in the late 1930s included prominent figures like aviator Charles Lindbergh. • More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in internment camps in World War II.
