“Let me take the wife too, when I reach the cemetery she will be dead.” Stories of Holodomor survivors
Liubov Vozniuk (Cherkasy): The famine hurts me even now. My parents, the Klymenkos – Mykhailo and Varvara with…
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“Finlandization” was malignant for Finland and might be even worse for Ukraine
Finnish era of “Finlandization” After the Second World War, Finland remained an “odd man out” on the European…
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…
Moscow’s continuing lies about Katyn ‘analogous to Holocaust denials,’ Romanov says
In December last year, an all-Russian television channel owned by Gazprom Media showed a four-part series on the…
Stalin’s centralization of archives leaves post-Soviet states without key sources on their histories
A frequent refrain of researchers on Soviet history is that key questions will be answered “when the archives…
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…
Kremlin refuses to see ‘Russians are tired of empire’ and so is on a suicidal path, Tsipko says
Vladimir Putin and his regime continue to try to blame Gorbachev or the West for the demise of…
Demise of USSR was anything but bloodless
Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, it is perhaps not surprising that a number of…
Which western bands were banned in the USSR?
KISS – neo-fascism, punk, violence Led Zeppelin – punk, violence Madonna – sex What the hell is this?…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 6)
Hundreds of thousands of families lost their means of subsistence. They were scattered across the Soviet country: some…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 5)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
Starved mother lay dead while her baby sucked on empty breast | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Lepetykha was one of such small rivers and the Cossacks built on its shores. First permanent settlements appeared…
My granny stole pig food for us grandchildren but died of starvation herself | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
The Syvak family Ksenia Prokopiuk was born on January 31, 1927, in Tanske village of Uman district. Her…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 4)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
More is not better. The deleterious effects of artificially inflated Holodomor death tolls
For years on end, scholars, academics and historians have been inflating the number of deaths caused by the…
Half our village died of starvation, mostly the elderly | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Traveling throughout Ukraine and recording the 1932-1933 Holodomor genocide witnesses, the Holodomor Museum’s employees listened to the hundreds…
My neighbor buried her three children | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Vasylyna Antonivna Yarovenko was born on 5 April 1923. “On Thursday,” she adds laughing. Her daughter explains, “It…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 3)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
Every day two or three people starved to death in our village | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
, , the Holodomor of 1932–1933—all these Soviet anti-farmer terror policies hit hard Anna Slobodian and her family.…
My village once saw twelve people die of hunger in one day | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Authorities classified Hryhoriy’s family as poor, yet seized their food stocks “When the started, my father was registered…