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Nazi occupation

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  2018/03/30 - 15:13 • Featured, History, International, Ukraine

  The forgotten tragedy of Koryukivka: How the Nazis exterminated a town of...

  In the French village of Oradour (June 1944), Nazis murdered 642 inhabitants; in the Czech village of Lidice (June, 1943) – 320, in the Belarusian village of Khatyn (March 1943) – 149 (according to contemporary German data...

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  2017/05/08 - 10:22 • Archive

  Moscow completely restores and promotes Stalinist conception of WW2, Pavlova says

  The Putin regime not only has completely restored the Stalinist conception of World War II but is promoting it in the media and the schools in ways that will make it ever more difficult for Russians to break out of that ideological...

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  2017/04/22 - 11:05 • International, More

  Putin reaffirms Stalinist version of origins of World War II, Pavlova says

  No issue is as sensitive in Russian society as World War II, a conflict Russians call “The Great Fatherland War,” and consequently no shift in its interpretation by senior officials provides a better indication about the priorities and...

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  2016/09/24 - 11:41 • History, More

  77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of...

  Many people forget that Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II. This week includes an anniversary the Kremlin didn’t want anyone to mark or even remember: 77 years...

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  2015/03/28 - 15:47 • History, More

  Why did Stalin save the life of Hitler’s gauleiter in Ukraine who...

  That the Soviets and the Nazis cooperated even before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and that Stalin and Hitler were allies between 1939 and 1941 are well known, but that Stalin interceded to save the life of Hitler’s notorious gauleiter in...

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