Holodomor, Genocide & Russia: the great Ukrainian challenge
November is the month of remembrance, and this year marks the 86th commemoration of the 1932-33 Holodomor, one…
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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…
Plaque commemorating Austrian Cardinal who helped Ukrainians during the Holodomor unveiled in Vienna
A plaque commemorating Theodor Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna and Cardinal of the Catholic Church, was unveiled at the…
More victims of soviet terror found in Zhytomyr Oblast (update)
From August 2 to August 4, Poshuk continued to search and excavate territories that were settled by inhabitants…
Mass graves of victims of communist regime found in Zhytomyr region (photos)
“From July 19 to July 21, while conducting more excavation work on the mass massacre site of civilians,…
How Stalin destroyed the Crimean Tatar intellectual elite
Major changes in political strategy swept the USSR towards the end of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937-1938,…
Mass graves of NKVD victims found in former Dubno prison
The group discovered 19 bodies in a deep pit, not far from the prison wall. Among them: three…
Russian lawyer who conducted ‘secret Nuremberg’ against Stalinists brings archive to the West
A Russian lawyer who posed as a Stalinist and sought the rehabilitation of Stalin criminals, sometimes successfully and…
Soviet soldiers who were shot by their own people recalled
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers did not take Berlin because they died in battle against the Germans,…
Ukrainians in Germany gathering 50,000 signatures for Holodomor to be recognized as genocide
A petition to recognize Holodomor, the artificial famine in Ukraine during 1932-1933, as genocide of the Ukrainian people…
Russia didn’t ‘feed’ the USSR: the entire USSR ‘fed’ the nomenklatura, Mirovich says
One of the most widespread myths in Russia today is that in Soviet times, Russia took care of…
Oksana Zabuzhko: Ukraine is at the forefront of a huge world battle that will transform humanity
Oksana Zabuzhko was born in 1960. She is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, essayist, and one of the most…
Russian secret police declassify century-old documents but then block access to them
In a move that perfectly embodies the “hybrid” way the Putin regime does things, the FSB has announced…
New film shows Kazakhs they suffered a Holodomor too, infuriating Moscow
Ever more Kazakhs are revising their views about the early Soviet period when several million of their ancestors…
New Siberian website provides data on Russification of non-Russians and repression of Russians
At a time when most Russian sites are devoted to promoting an entirely positive image of the Russian…
Black January in Baku – the time and place the Soviet Union died
On January 20 twenty-nine years ago, Soviet forces attacked the people of Baku, killing and wounding hundreds and…
The West’s failure in 1991 must not be repeated now
Twenty-eight years ago today, Moscow sent troops to Lithuania and killed 13 people in the vain hope of…
Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime…
Was Holodomor a genocide? Examining the arguments
Today it’s hardly doubted that at least 3.3 millions of people according to the estimation of the historian…
‘Stalin prepared the Holodomor the same way Hitler did the Holocaust,’ Hrynevych says
Ukrainian historian Liudmyla Hrynevych says that “Stalin prepared the Holodomor with the very same methods which Hitler prepared…