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“Finlandization” was malignant for Finland and might be even worse for Ukraine
[editorial]French President Emmanuel Macron‘s recent, apparently misquoted remarks have reignited an international debate about “Finlandization” — specifically about…
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?
[editorial]Is your favorite band on this list of 50 musical groups deemed “harmful” and outlawed during the USSR?[/editorial]…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 6)
[editorial]Dekulakization actually preceded the Holodomor of 1932-33. All “wealthier” peasants were expelled from their homes with their families,…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 5)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a Resolution ‘On measures…
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)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a Resolution ‘On measures…
More is not better. The deleterious effects of artificially inflated Holodomor death tolls
[editorial]The scientifically sound estimate of the number of Ukrainians who starved to death in Stalin’s Holodomor famine is…
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
[editorial]Vasylyna Yarovenko, née Kashchuk, was a ten-year-old peasant girl in 1932-1933, when her village was hit by the…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 3)
[editorial]First document on kulaks and kulak farms Resolution of the Council of the People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian…
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
[editorial] Hryhoriy Shykyriavyi was a six-year-old kid from a poor family in 1932-1933, when his village was hit…
‘Friendship of the peoples’ – one of many Soviet myths waiting to be debunked, Mirovich says
Myths about the Soviet past continue to circulate and even to grow, Maxim Mirovich says; but they are…