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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…
Moscow still refuses to recognize Soviet genocide of Ingermanlanders
Most of the peoples whom Stalin deported have been allowed to return to their home areas and have…
Who wants the USSR back in Ukraine?
Ukrainska Pravda studied research from the Razumkov Center and the Rating Group, spoke with sociologists and historians, became…
How Ukraine’s Vasyl Stus used poems to fight the Soviet Regime
In 1972, Vasyl Stus was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda. As his wife Valentyna Popeliukh recalls the moment: “Until…
Many Ukrainians remain “Soviet people” decades after collapse of the USSR. How to eliminate “Bolshevism of the mind”?
In the evening of 25 October 1917, a blank shot from the forecastle gun of the Cruiser “Aurora” signaled the start of…
Russians urged to reflect on ‘inexplicable paradoxes of the Soviet Union’
A Moscow blogger has suggested that Russians now, when thinking about the Soviet past, should reflect on what…
West backed Forest Brothers in Baltic countries, newly declassified CIA documents show
Many in the Baltic countries and elsewhere still celebrate the US non-recognition policy which specified that Washington would…
Shmulyevich: Putin to reprise Stalin’s Winter War in Finland strategy against Ukraine
One of the most important features of Moscow’s behavior but one that at the same time Western leaders…
No foreigner cracked Russians’ top ten statesmen of all times and places
The Levada Center poll concerning whom Russians see as the most outstanding statesmen of all times and places…
1962 Novocherkassk shootings led rise of dissident movement and end of Soviet system, historians say
The massacre of striking Novocherkassk workers by Soviet military units 55 years ago this week initially spread fear…
Putin regime likely to end by only one of five scenarios, Eidman says
Many analysts in Russia and the West are now openly talking about how the regime of Vladimir Putin…
Difficult choice for Ukraine as identities of KGB agents finally come to light
Ukraine’s resolve to open the archives of the communist special services makes publicly available not only the files…
Since 1945, Moscow has been involved in a military action on average every 2 years
Among the many messages the Kremlin wants Russians to take away from its celebrations of Victory Day is…
Even oppressed non-Russians made important contributions to war effort in WW2
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could…
‘Fearing another 1991, Kremlin is making that outcome more likely,’ Shevtsova says
In yet another manifestation of what Guillermo O’Donnell described as “the powerlessness of the all-powerful,” Lilia Shevtsova argues,…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 1: The interwar prelude
More than we think, Soviet propaganda has influenced the way in which many see World War II. This…
History repeats in Russia as FSB raids human rights activist from KGB-repressed family
After the arrest of the Crimean Tatar lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and growing pressure on his Russian colleague Nikolai…
From CIA archives: Stepan Bandera’s 1954 interview to German radio
On 17 January 2017, the CIA declassified more than 930,000 documents from the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) system…
Belavezha Accords didn’t destroy the USSR: it had already ceased to exist, Shtepa says
As Russians and others approach the 25th anniversary of the Belavezha Accords, many of them are certain to…
Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations
A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…