Six post-Soviet countries now say they were occupied by the USSR
Yesterday, Georgians marked the 94th anniversary of what Tbilisi calls “the battle of the Soviet Occupation” of that…
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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…
Russian mother accused of treason defended nation’s right to stop crimes of the government
The whole spectrum of Russian society has already had a say in the debates concerning the case of…
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…
Putin on Ukraine repeats Molotov on Finland
1) Putin on Ukraine and NATO = Molotov on Finland and "imperialists" Essentially, Putin repeats Molotov's words. See…
Ukraine and Auschwitz: history and politics
On January 27, 2015, delegations from 40 world countries will arrive in the Polish town of Oświęcim to…
Putin’s war in Ukraine keeps Moscow from addressing Cossack genocide of 1920s
Ninety-six years ago this weekend, the Soviet government launched what became a decade-long campaign to “de-Cossackize” Russia, a…
Gorbachev’s ‘greatest mistake’ — Black January in Baku 25 years ago
Twenty-five years ago today, on Mikhail Gorbachev’s order, Soviet troops by land, sea and air invaded the Azerbaijani…
Crimea: the Russian chauvinists’ inferiority complex
Vladimir Putin has been mentioning Crimea frequently in the recent days. He either gives history lessons, saying some…
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…
25 years after Sakharov’s death, the world needs his ideas even more
Twenty-five years ago, on December 14, 1989, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov died of a heart attack at the age…
75 Years On Russia Again Engaged in a Winter War
Seventy-five years ago today, Moscow launched what became known as the Winter War against Finland. It used much…
How Stalin crushed the Euromaidan of 1930
"The Ukrainian village stood on the brink of a new tempest. A second mass exodus from the collective farms would…
Putin’s Hilter-esque excuses
Simferopol – We do not think much about the fact that we are constantly participating in the living…
Dancing with Stalin. The Holodomor genocide famine in Ukraine
Contents De-humanization first, then their destruction can be justified Enormous losses, an enormous task of remembrance Holodomor as…
About the Holodomor. Background data
The term Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33…
Maidan for the descendants
Years later Maidan will become a theme for literature and cinema, its aged participants will tell their grandchildren…
Never again! Celebrating Kharkiv’s independent spirit and the end to all Holodomors
Never Again! Kharkiv, Then and Now: In the 1930's, the USSR artificially orchestrated a famine in the land…
November 22 – the tenth anniversary of the Orange Revolution
Today is the tenth anniversary of the Orange Revolution, which began as a protest against the falsification of…
Stalin’s “Little Green Men”
After the Crimea was annexed and after the war in the Donbas was unleashed a lot has been…