Velshi: We are all the authors of democracy – and must act in time to save it

On September the 7th, 1812, two great armies gathered on the fields near a small Russian village called Borodino. It was just west of Moscow. Napoleon's troops advanced from the west while Russian forces dug in to face them.History would remember the subsequent battle of Borodino as one of the bloodiest single days of combat in the Napoleonic Wars. The moment that the French invasion of Russia began to unravel. A half a century later, Leo Toltoy, a veteran of war himself, sat down to write about that event. ...