Putin reaffirms Stalinist version of origins of World War II, Pavlova says
No issue is as sensitive in Russian society as World War II, a conflict Russians call “The Great…
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“Putin is War; Putin is Death” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Georgia a victim not just of communism but also of Soviet occupation, memorialization reaffirms
Since 1989 and 1991, it has become a commonplace in the analysis of formerly communist countries that those…
On 73rd anniversary of deportation, Chechnya and Ingushetia divide on Stalin and his crimes
Seventy-three years ago today, Stalin the two Vaynakh nations, the Chechens and the Ingush, thousands of whom lost…
Moscow analyst: Britain’s support for Poland, not Molotov-Ribbentrop, caused WW2, and its backing of Ukraine could trigger WW3
Moscow analyst Yury Mukhin offers an historical analogy which says far more than he intends. In a new…
It’s long past time to identify and shame Holodomor deniers
One of the positive developments of recent decades has been the willingness of historians and those concerned with…
The Holodomor of 1932-33. Why Stalin feared Ukrainians
The memory of Holodomor entered the Ukrainian national consciousness only during the perestroika years. It is difficult to…
Historian Martyniuk: Ukrainian homes were massively occupied by Russian settlers
– There were thousands and thousands of empty houses that had once belonged to Ukrainian families. Moscow’s strategy…
So how many Ukrainians died in the Holodomor?
The main issue being disputed is the number of people that died from starvation – it ranges from…
Stalin starved populations to death to russify Ukraine, North Caucasus and Kazakhstan, statistics show
Today, Ukrainians and people of good will around the world will mark the Day in Memory of the…
Documents reveal Soviet repressions against those resisting Holodomor genocidal famine
Previously unknown documents reveal the scale of Soviet repression against peasant dissenters against collectivization and forced expulsion of…
Russian blogger Yakovlev: My grandfather was a “chekist” and a murderer
Have you ever seen a real chekist ID? This belonged to my grandfather and I still have it.…
The history behind “Bitter Harvest,” dramatic movie about the Holodomor
Over the last year the Holodomor has garnered much needed additional publicity, in part due to the current…
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…
Remembering Soviet atrocities: Solovki and Sandarmokh
Ukrainian historians and activists, who have been travelling every year to the Solovetsky Islands in the extreme north…
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.…
Remains of executed victims found in Lviv’s Prison on Lontskoho Museum
For more than three weeks Ukrainian archaeologists have been excavating the courtyard of the National Memorial Museum “Tyurma…
Kuropaty, the Soviet killing fields in Belarus — world must not forget
Zianon Pazniak, who 28 years ago published an article exposing the Soviet killing fields at Kuropaty, a wooded…
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…
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…