Treebark pancakes and pinecone soup: “dishes” from Ukrainian 1930’s Holodomor famine served in Brussels
The Ukrainian leadership academy held a sidewalk cafe in Brussels near the European Parliament. Its aim was to…
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Soviets executed three times as many Red Army soldiers as Nazis executed German ones
Sometimes the driest of statistics throw a harsher light on reality than any longer discussion. According to official…
Bodies of 134 victims of Soviet terror in Ukraine given proper burial
On 24 March 2018, 134 bodies of victims of Soviet terror in the west-Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk were…
Another ‘punished people’ documented – the Kola Norwegians destroyed by Stalin
As the Putin regime takes more steps to hide the crimes of Stalin – it has gotten Interpol…
Soviet chekists weren’t the professionals Putin wants Russians to think they were, new book says
The KGB and its predecessors were not the highly disciplined professionals and successful managers Vladimir Putin and the…
Mass grave of Kozak Volyn Division of UNR Army found in Vinnytsia Oblast
According to a local, Mykola Drabaty, who remembers the stories recounted by elderly villagers, the soldiers buried in…
Ukraine suffered the most deaths in the Holodomor, while Kazakhstan had the highest percentage loss of population
Experts at the Kyiv Institute of Demography say that Ukrainians suffered the greatest number of excess deaths as…
Ukrainians suffered three terror famines under the Soviets not just one
This week Ukrainians and all people of goodwill around the world are marking the 85th anniversary of the…
How Stalin starved 1930’s rural Ukraine to quash political enemies: Anne Applebaum interview
TAMARA ROZOUVAN: Thank you so much for joining me. In your book, you’ve written that near four million…
134 bodies of NKVD victims unearthed in Ivano-Frankivsk
In the summer of 2017, while laying cables along the street, engineers stumbled upon several human remains. Pamyat…
British House of Commons once again calls to recognize the Holodomor as genocide
During a debate held on 7 November, MPs from the House of Commons in Britain (lower chamber of…
History as a weapon in Russia’s war on Ukraine
Instead, the Ukrainian independence struggle looks set to be airbrushed out of the Bolshevik spectacular, much as it…
Why the Holodomor is genocide under UN convention: On Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine
Between 1932–33, Stalin sought to wipe out the very concept of an independent Ukraine by targeting its peasantry…
Mass graves of victims of political repression discovered in Ivano-Frankivsk
According to eyewitnesses, the employees of Prykarpattyaoblenergo did not initially understand what they were looking at even though…
107 remains of political prisoners executed by NKVD found in old Lutsk prison (photos)
NKVD – the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the leading Soviet secret police organization from 1934 to…
Diplomatic tightrope and historical memory: Ukraine-Israel foreign policy audit
Relations between Ukraine and Israel are distant and close at the same time. As a home for the…
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…
Documentary Genocide Revealed launches new web site
A new website has been launched highlighting the availability of the English, Ukrainian, French versions of the multi-award winning…
Washington becomes first US state to recognize Holodomor as genocide
On 22 May 2017, the Washington State Senate approved a resolution calling Holodomor “genocide by Stalin’s regime against…
Moscow completely restores and promotes Stalinist conception of WW2, Pavlova says
The Putin regime not only has completely restored the Stalinist conception of World War II but is promoting…