The occupation of Eastern Europe in 1944–1945 by the Red Army and the establishment of communist regimes in the region involved means of large-scale repressions, deportations, and the subjugation of the population. To establish the...
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide launched a special project – ‘Dekulakization: how the Stalinist regime...
Red Army soldiers raising the USSR flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945. Iconic original photo (L) by Yevgeny Khaldei. The fragment of the original (top R) shows wristwatches on both hands of the offices, later the...
Kateryna Desnytska was born in a wealthy family Lutsk, Volyn Oblast on April 27, 1886, one of twelve children. This was her parents’ second marriage – together they raised four children from the mother’s first marriage, six from...
One of the most obscure aspects of Stalin’s rule was his deportation of Finns and Norwegians in 1940 away from the Soviet border and the destruction of most of them in the GULAG. Few studies have been prepared on this act of genocide,...
The document will be brought to Ukraine by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba. “We continue searching for historical documents and artefacts that show Ukraine’s government traditions and diplomatic work on the...
Did a Ukrainian unit really come to the help of Finland in the Winter War? FACT CHECK: FALSE Homeniuk notes that at the beginning of the Winter War, 41-year-old writer Gorlis-Gorsky arrived in Finland, where he put forward the idea of...
The new land of the Ukrainian Cossacks Thousands of Ukrainian Cossacks and their families moved to the Kuban region. They formed 40 kurins (units of Zaporizhian Cossacks) that were immediately included into the Black Sea Army. Ukrainian...
The entrance to the three-meter-deep catacomb was buried under a large number of heavy granite boulders. The archeologists explain that this was done in order to protect the burial site from robbers nad gravediggers. By the standards of...
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict reaches back to the times when Ukraine emerged on the world map. In fact, it had started long before Russia established itself as a state. The nature of this conflict, though, has remained unchanged. Since...
Abstract This report investigates the attempted – and partly “successful” – Russian influence in the Austrian Ministry of Defense as well as in organizations in its “entourage.” It starts with the Vienna-based...
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