Soviet soldiers who were shot by their own people recalled
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers did not take Berlin because they died in battle against the Germans,…
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Ukrainians in Germany gathering 50,000 signatures for Holodomor to be recognized as genocide
A petition to recognize Holodomor, the artificial famine in Ukraine during 1932-1933, as genocide of the Ukrainian people…
Oksana Zabuzhko: Ukraine is at the forefront of a huge world battle that will transform humanity
Oksana Zabuzhko was born in 1960. She is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, essayist, and one of the most…
ECHR decision on “ethnopolitical genocide” in Lithuania deals blow to Soviet crimes
Is punishment inevitable? Commenting on the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (one of the organizers of the…
New film shows Kazakhs they suffered a Holodomor too, infuriating Moscow
Ever more Kazakhs are revising their views about the early Soviet period when several million of their ancestors…
Black January in Baku – the time and place the Soviet Union died
On January 20 twenty-nine years ago, Soviet forces attacked the people of Baku, killing and wounding hundreds and…
Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime…
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…
Was Holodomor a genocide? Examining the arguments
Today it’s hardly doubted that at least 3.3 millions of people according to the estimation of the historian…
‘Stalin prepared the Holodomor the same way Hitler did the Holocaust,’ Hrynevych says
Ukrainian historian Liudmyla Hrynevych says that “Stalin prepared the Holodomor with the very same methods which Hitler prepared…
See which countries recognize Ukraine’s Holodomor famine as genocide on an interactive map
Updated 24 November 2022 On November 24, Ukraine marks Holodomor remembrance day, commemorating the millions of Ukrainian peasants…
GULAG was not something far away in Siberia: it was all around, even in Moscow
Today, Russians of good will paused to remember those who had suffered and died in Stalin’s GULAG. This…
Stalin deported 100,000 Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan in October 1947
Seventy-one years ago this week, Stalin deported tens of thousands of Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan, an action…
US denounced for suggesting Soviets committed genocide against their own people
Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators have reacted angrily to the decision of the US Senate to pass a…
How Soviet troops destroyed downtown Kyiv and killed Kyivans in 1941
This 1941 photo documents a pile of ruins in the very center of Kyiv, which is now Maidan…
Stalin’s terror famine killed Ukrainians at twice the rate of other nationalities, HURI study says
A newly released study by scholars at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is attracting enormous attention in…
Mass graves of UPA & OUN partisans discovered in Ternopil Oblast
Scholars and employees of the memorial research enterprise “Dolya” and the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance have…
The liars of Kremlin dance on the graves of famine victims
The Holodomor was a famine in Ukraine caused by the Soviet government in 1932 and 1933. It took…
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…
Moscow secretly destroyed GULAG victims records in 2014
Roman Romanov, the director of the GULAG History Museum in Moscow, says that one of his researchers, Sergey…