The idol, the butcher: Expanding gap in attitudes toward Stalin reflects Ukraine and Russia’s diverging identities
Attitudes toward Stalin have become a powerful symbol of the deep divide between the two countries.
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Echoes of Stalin’s terror: Great Purge memorial day faces interference from “Russian patriots”
The Memorial Day for the victims of Stalin’s regime, including thousands of Ukrainians, at the Sandarmokh memorial site in Russia was interrupted by militarised patriotic individuals, who celebrated Soviet military glory.
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
30 years on, only one Russian in 100 connects USSR with Red Terror, shootings and GULAG
Given Vladimir Putin’s obsession with the Soviet Union whose demise he regularly calls “the greatest geopolitical disaster” of…
Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada rescues videos, testimonies of Ukrainian dissidents
Director Yuriy Luhovy and producer Zoryana Hrytsenko from Canada have rescued 26 video recordings of Ukrainian dissidents. These…
Paraska Plytka Horytsvit, “Ukrainian Vivian Maier,” returns to the limelight
Paraska’s creative output includes more than 4,000 photographs and about 500 books. She wrote many of her…
Moscow moves from justifying GULAG to glorifying it
Indeed, Viktoriya Nikiforova says, Russians should not accept the widespread myths about Stalin’s camps that have been spread…
Russia still hiding Stalin’s genocidal crimes against Finns and Norwegians after 80 years
One of the most obscure aspects of Stalin’s rule was his deportation of Finns and Norwegians in 1940…
Ukrainian dissident Oleksa Tykhyy. How a teacher from Soviet Donetsk became “Public Enemy #1”
In his article “Reflections on my native Donetsk” (Думки про рідний донецький край, 1972), Oleksa Tykhyy wrote the…
Putin restores the GULAG by legalizing slave labor of convicts
Given all the changes Vladimir Putin is making in these days in the Russian constitutional order, ones that…
The story of Father Ivan Kypriyan and his children who froze to death in a soviet gulag
The world knows about Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan friar, who volunteered to take the place of…
Ukraine rehabilitates first living victim of Communist regime
The press service of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance stated that the National Rehabilitation Commission has recognized…
They broke the Gulag: How Ukrainians overcame the Soviet repressive machine
"They triumphed, though their struggle stretched for 74 years of existence of the communist totalitarian and its concentration…
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…
A new GULAG is emerging just as Stalin’s did slowly and insidiously, Gudkov warns
A “new GULAG” is emerging in Russia “right before our eyes,” opposition politician Gennady Gudkov says. For the…
The Kremlin and the GULAG: Deliberate amnesia
Read also: Moscow secretly destroyed GULAG victims records in 2014 The classified order on “The effectuation of the order…
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…
Tatar political prisoner: I will continue to denounce Russia’s criminal government
Would you describe the day you left the prison? Actually, a conflict arose on the day I left…
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…
Chief of Russia’s FSB: Stalin-era repressions were largely justified
Aleksandr Bortnikov, the director of the FSB secret police [a successor to the KGB], says that the political…