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Stalin
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Stalin devalued human life in the same way as Putin, Borrel says
EU top diplomat Josep Borrell underscores the similarity between Stalin's and Putin's attitudes toward human life, highlighting the importance of EU unity in aiding Ukraine against Russian aggression, citing substantial support at the Ambassadors Conference.
Army of marauders: the long history of Russian military looting, pillaging, and stealing
Military marauding is an enduring concept in warfare. However, the sight of Russian soldiers pillaging, killing and looting…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 6)
[editorial]Dekulakization actually preceded the Holodomor of 1932-33. All “wealthier” peasants were expelled from their homes with their families,…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 5)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a Resolution ‘On measures…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 4)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a Resolution ‘On measures…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 3)
[editorial]First document on kulaks and kulak farms Resolution of the Council of the People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 2)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a resolution ‘On measures…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 1)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a resolution ‘On measures…
Russian liberals opened the way for return of Stalinism, Inozsemtsev says
That is because the ways they chose to attack Stalin had the effect of separating the dictator from…
KGB archives: How the NKVD crushed young patriotic OUN members in Melitopol region
Twenty years of hard labour – for the young man, ten years in a penal colony – for…
Putin’s victory parade & Crimea land grab are a throwback to Stalinist times: Vitaly Portnikov
Why is Putin in such a hurry to stage this parade? After all, he has more important issues…
Sürgünlik: Remembering Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944
On May 10, 1944, Lavrentiy Beria, the notorious chief of the NKVD (Soviet security and secret police), recommended…
80 years ago Stalin deported German anti-fascist, communist, Jewish refugees to Hitler
The pact with Stalin made it possible for Germany to unleash a military attack on Poland just one…
How Stalin destroyed the Crimean Tatar intellectual elite
Major changes in political strategy swept the USSR towards the end of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937-1938,…
Crimea – not sanctions – real harbinger of demise of Russian Federation, Telegram channel says
A compelling argument can be made that the Soviet Union died when it did and not much later…
Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime…
When the League of Nations expelled the USSR for bombing Finland
Seventy-nine years ago, on December 14, 1939, the League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union from membership for…
Stalin deported 100,000 Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan in October 1947
Seventy-one years ago this week, Stalin deported tens of thousands of Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan, an action…
US denounced for suggesting Soviets committed genocide against their own people
Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators have reacted angrily to the decision of the US Senate to pass a…