When the Chornobyl nuclear accident took place in 1986, the behavior of the Soviet powers that be was to remain silent, understate the nature of the problem or lie about it and the reaction of the population of the USSR was to fear the...
On May 18, Crimean Tatars and their supporters around the world marked the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of their ancestors from their homeland, an action in which tens of thousands died in Central Asian exile and from which...
Two days ago, the Latvian Saeima became the first foreign parliament to adopt a resolution recognizing Soviet treatment of the Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide, an action in advance of the 75th anniversary of their deportation in 1944...
One of the most widespread myths in Russia today is that in Soviet times, Russia took care of everyone, Maxim Mirovich says; but in fact, Moscow didn’t “feed” anyone. Instead, “the entire country worked for the Soviet...
The demographic portrait of the region: how Russian propaganda used it The ethnicity map of Ukraine suggests that Putin had a reason to target the territories of Donbas and Crimea. These are the regions with the smallest percentage of...
Seventy-nine years ago, on December 14, 1939, the League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union from membership for its actions against Finland, an act of principle by an organization most people consider to have been incapable of that and...
Most of the peoples whom Stalin deported have been allowed to return to their home areas and have been politically at least partially rehabilitated. But one stands out because Moscow still refuses to acknowledge it was the victim of a...
Ukrayinska Pravda studied research from the Razumkov Center and the Rating Group, spoke with sociologists and historians, became familiar with their professional works and at last returned to compile an image of a Ukrainian who yearns for...
In 1972, Vasyl Stus was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda. As his wife Valentyna Popeliukh recalls the moment: “Until 3 AM, or even longer, they were going through the books, manuscripts, everything that was in the house, even rags. I...
In the evening of 25 October 1917, a blank shot from the forecastle gun of the Cruiser “Aurora” signaled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, which was to be the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution....
– It was September (1932-Ed). I was sitting in the sleeping car of the Moscow-Kharkiv express train that was taking me to my new job. … In the daytime, the bleak, suffering land looked even more frightening than at night. At...
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