How the NKVD executed proletarian writer Maik Yohansen for spreading “bourgeois-nationalist sentiment”
Yohansen was an active member of Hart, an association of proletarian writers founded in Kharkiv in January 1923…
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The tragic destiny of the Krushelnytsky family, annihilated by the communist regime
Photo of the Krushelnytsky-Levytsky family Sitting (from left to right): Volodymyra Krushelnytska – dermatologist, publicist, editor, public and…
To rule Russia, Putin doesn’t need mass murders: he has TV, Khersonsky says
There are as yet no mass repressions in Russia, but there is “simply no need for them,” Ukrainian…
Victor Serge again triumphs over Arthur Koestler
Two images of Stalin’s Great Terror have long competed in the West and even in some former communist…
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…