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Crimea, Donbas, Aleppo — crimes of historic proportions

Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved his goal. He has entered the history books as a head of…

byVitaly Portnikov

The cover of the book called "Istoriomor, or The Drilling into the Brain of Memory: Battles for the Truth about the GULAG, Deportations, the War and the Holocaust" by geographer and historian Pavel Polyan. “'Istoriomor' is a necessary “neologism and metaphor” to cover “the triumph of politicized mythology and anti-historicism over what is really history and memory.” It involves making certain themes and sources taboo, falsifying and mythologizing events, and both denial of the obvious and relativism about anything negative.

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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Chechen and Afghan echoes of Putin’s military operation in Syria

On the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s decision to introduce Russian forces into the Syrian civil war on…

byPaul A. Goble

New arrivals to the GULAG concentration camp on the Solovetsky Islands, also known a the Solovki. Millions of Soviet and foreign citizens were killed, starved or worked to death in camps like this.

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Remembering Soviet atrocities: Solovki and Sandarmokh

Ukrainian historians and activists, who have been travelling every year to the Solovetsky Islands in the extreme north…

byRadio Liberty

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War in Donbas

Ukrainian blogger challenges Russian presenter during MH17 show, gets shoved out of studio [VIDEO]

During the show, German journalist Andre Ballin questioned the credibility of the Russian official investigators. Ukrainian blogger Serhiy…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

David Low named his political cartoon describing the German-Russian invasion of Poland that started the WW2 - "Rendezvous." The cartoon depicts a meeting by the two allied Nazi-Soviet dictators over the corpse of a Polish defender. Hitler says to Stalin while smiling, lifting his hat and bowing: "The Scum of the Earth, I believe?" and Stalin responds to him "The Bloody Assassin of the Workers, I presume?" while smiling, bowing and lifting his in kind. The secret agreement on the division of Poland that was part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was not yet known, but nonetheless, Low recognized what happened and drew it in this work. (Image: The Evening Standard (UK), September 20, 1939 issue)

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77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of Poland

Many people forget that Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II.…

byPaul A. Goble

Photos of the killed hostages line up the walls of the Beslan School #1. The European Court for Human Rights has concluded that the Russian troops were responsible for killing the hostages in 2004, not terrorists, as Putin government portrayed it. Over 330 hostages were killed in the massacre, including 186 children. (Image: Wikipedia)

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“Russian troops not terrorists killed Beslan hostages” and other neglected Russian stories

The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…

byPaul A. Goble

The corpses of prisoners of the Lviv NKVD jail who were hastily executed by the NKVD troops before fleeing the city from advancing Germans in July 1941. (Photo: cdvr.org.ua)

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Lists of NKVD victims killed in mass executions in 1941 published online

75 years ago, during June - July 1941, the Soviet NKVD shot around 24 thousand prisoners in western…

byCivic Sector Organizations

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Afanasyev and Soloshenko: How the FSB breaks prisoners

Released on June 14, Ukrainian political prisoners Gennadiy Afanasyev and Yuriy Soloshenko meet us at the hospital where…

byUkrayinska Pravda

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Stalin’s deportation of Baltic peoples in June 1941 remembered

Seventy-five years ago today, when Stalin was Hitler’s ally, Moscow began the forcible deportation of tens of thousands…

byPaul A. Goble

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Gorbachev’s support for Putin’s Crimean Anschluss – no surprise, Malgin says

Given his own willingness to use violence against people in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and elsewhere, no one…

byPaul A. Goble

Crimean Tatars commemorating the anniversary of deportation (Image: RFE/RL)

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Crimean Tatars no longer alone in remembering Stalin’s crimes against their nation

Seventy-two years ago, the Soviet state deported the Crimean Tatars from their homeland to Central Asia, a tragedy…

byPaul A. Goble

Magadan Hills, a painting by Mykola Hetman, a former GULAG prisoner, born December 23, 1917 in Kharkov, Ukraine. Background of the picture: In 1932, members of a Soviet geological expedition discovered gold at the mouth of the Utinny River in Siberia. A GULAG settlement was built between the villages of Balaganny and Ola, the hills there destroyed, piers built, and the settlement named Magadan after a nearby stream. Forced laborers were brought in to build roads from Magadan to the gold. Building the roads was incredibly harsh labor in the permafrost. The prisoners were poorly fed and worked for long hours under fierce conditions with rudimentary tools. The sentiment expressed here is that the roads were built on human bones—that every hill, every gully, and every path in Magadan represents human lives and could be the site of a human grave. The sun is eclipsed to symbolize the darkness and evil that cast its shadow over the people of the Soviet Union. The cross represents the enormous burdens the prisoners had to bear. It also symbolizes Christ's trek up the hill of Golgotha, which the artist likens to the prisoners' journey. (Source: thegulag.org)

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Why do many Westerners show sympathy to Russia and Communism – but not to their victims?

Those who study the post-Soviet world and especially its non-Russian parts are often struck by the fact that…

byPaul A. Goble

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Holodomor: Stalin’s genocidal famine of 1932-1933 | Infographic

Holodomor ("death by hunger" in Ukrainian) refers to the starvation of at least four million Ukrainians in 1932–33…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Hitler used to say: ‘Nobody talks about the Armenians nowadays’

On August 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler explained to his entourage why he thought he could get away with…

byPaul A. Goble