# Rina Lu I write about Russian and Soviet history. Born and raised in the USSR/Russia, I offer a Russian perspective grounded in archives, statistics, and objectivity—untangling Cold War propaganda and beyond. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Root of the Ukrainian Conflict Or Did Lenin Really Create Ukraine?](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/the-root-of-the-ukrainian-conflict) _2026-06-09 · Rina Lu_ From Austrian Laboratories to Soviet Republics: The Long Construction of the Ukrainian Nation. ## [The Hidden Western Financial Ties Behind the Rise of Nazi Germany](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/the-hidden-western-financial-ties) _2026-05-24 · Rina Lu_ How Prescott Bush, American corporations, and Western financial elites became entangled with the industrial system that helped build the Third Reich ## [Russia Before the Revolution: A Strong Nation Betrayed from Within and Undermined from Abroad](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/russia-before-the-revolution-a-strong) _2026-05-20 · Rina Lu_ By the early 1900s, Russia wasn’t some backward empire, it was a country on the rise. ## [Before the Cold War Had a Name](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/the-day-the-world-was-divided) _2026-03-06 · Rina Lu_ Eighty years after Churchill’s Fulton speech, the origins of the Cold War still tell a story about power, alliances, and who gets to define the rules of the world order. ## [How liberal financial order paved the way for violent regimes: the untold story of Hitler’s rise](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/how-liberal-rhetoric-paved-the-way) _2026-01-23 · Rina Lu_ Transatlantic Capital and the Making of Nazi Germany: The Warburg–Morgan–Schacht Connection. ## [Elite Betrayal as a Political Pattern: Russia 1917 and Venezuela Today](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/elite-betrayal-as-a-political-pattern) _2026-01-15 · Rina Lu_ How ruling classes abandon states when power and profit outweigh loyalty to nation and people ## [Postmodernism as the hidden ideology behind today’s geopolitical conflict](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/postmodernism-as-the-hidden-ideology) _2026-01-09 · Rina Lu_ Who Decides What Is True? ## [Parvus: A Man Behind the Curtain of the Russian Revolution](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/parvus-a-man-behind-the-curtain-of) _2025-12-04 · Rina Lu_ What Parvus wrote in 1915, and how the empire fell along the same fault lines two years later. ## [A story buried under decades of propaganda: How the West “fed” Hitler countries hoping he’d go eat the USSR](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/a-story-buried-under-decades-of-propaganda) _2025-11-04 · Rina Lu_ Appeasement as Strategy: Aiming Hitler Eastward ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xFqK53GeM0Ab) _2025-11-04 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [Finland’s Dirty Secret: From ‘Neutral’ Ally to Hitler’s Partner](https://rinalu17.substack.com/p/finlands-dirty-secret-from-neutral) _2025-08-31 · Rina Lu_ From U-boat projects to concetration camps, the evidence shows Finland was no bystander but a partner in crime.