Crimea and the Crimean Tatars: Centuries of competing claims and forgotten history
On August 23, 1932, a secret circular for the economic division of the secret police (OGPU) of the…
Fascism exploited and distorted in Putin’s Russia for propaganda’s sake
For most of the 20th century, the Russians lived under the iron grip of an authoritarian Marxist-Leninist form…
Stalin’s Caucasus crimes Putin wants you to forget
Exploring the Caucasus is akin to exploring a mini-continent with its many diverse ethnic groups and cultures all…
Stalin’s Holodomor in Kazakhstan, or a very brief guide to “The Goloshchekin genocide”
In 1876, in the Russian town of Nevel, a little Bolshevik figure by the name of Philip Isaevich…
On Holodomor denial, and fisking a denialist Russian professor of History
Soviet propaganda continues to shape the beliefs of Russians about the Russian and Soviet past and continues to…