Does the Kremlin fear repeats of 1962 Novocherkassk events – and would it react equally brutally?
Reports that Russian police are training to suppress working class risings appear especially ominous given that they come…
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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…
Why compare the Holodomor and the Holocaust
Professor Philippe de Lara gave a lecture about the unique nature of the two genocides: the Holocaust as…
Communist crimes against Ukrainians give them many reasons to ban Communist party
On 16 December 2015, the Kyiv District Administrative Court banned activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine. This came…
Why be concerned about the Memorial to the Victims of Communism controversy in Canada?
More than 8 million Canadians can trace their origins to countries that have been oppressed under Communist regimes.…
Orwell Art: lessons on democracy, civic engagement and global citizenship
When a voice remains silent and a story untold, the world is deprived of some aspect of truth…
Why don’t Russians commemorate the Terror Famine?
Today Ukrainians around the world commemorated the Holodomor, the terror famine Stalin directed against the peasantry in the…
Holodomor or death by starvation changes people’s genotype, say psychologists
Fear of dying of starvation has led many Ukrainians to believe that when it comes to choosing between…
Documents show massive export of products from Ukraine during Holodomor
The once-secret documents from the Russian State Archives of Economy have been posted online in the Electronic Archive of the Liberation Movement Research Centre on the eve of the 82nd anniversary of the Holodomor.
Russian court labels Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide”, an extremist
Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), scholar, lawyer and one of the “people of the truth” who testified about the Holodomor…
SBU Archive director: “Cause of death – Ukrainian” in 1933 registry
A press conference devoted to the 82nd anniversary of the Holodomor was recently held at the National Museum…
History, Identity and Holodomor Denial: Russia’s continued assault on Ukraine
On Saturday November 7, 2015, a long-awaited memorial to a little-known modern genocide will be dedicated in Washington…
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…
Stalin’s genocidal Holodomor campaign of 1932-33. What we know vs the denialist lies
On 5 July 1933, a desperate appeal for food aid was sent to Stalin from within the Bashkir…
Most Russians like Soviet symbols but lack knowledge about Soviet past – and that is dangerous
A VTsIOM poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Russians have a positive attitude toward Soviet symbols but…
Mass graves exemplify communist terror — Poroshenko
President Poroshenko called on all those who oppose decommunization to come to the site of mass graves in…
Holodomor and separatism in the Donbas
The Holodomor Memorial Museum in Kyiv has opened an exhibition on the artificial resettlement of Russians and Belarusians…
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…
Graphic novels on the Holodomor
Translated from an article by Anna Lazareyeva for BBC (November 13, 2010) and an article in Ukrainska Pravda…
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…