Baltic past and present successes explain Moscow’s schizophrenic propaganda response
Russian propaganda about the Baltic countries insists that they are marginal, but the amount of that Moscow effort…
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West backed Forest Brothers in Baltic countries, newly declassified CIA documents show
Many in the Baltic countries and elsewhere still celebrate the US non-recognition policy which specified that Washington would…
Inozemtsev: Russian Empire’s special features haven’t disappeared in Russia today
Three specific and even unique characteristics of the Russian Empire in the past have not disappeared in the…
Shmulyevich: Putin to reprise Stalin’s Winter War in Finland strategy against Ukraine
One of the most important features of Moscow’s behavior but one that at the same time Western leaders…
Kremlin-promoted, mythologized Russian past opens the way to a return to Stalinism
Many expected that with the passage of time, new generations of Russians would reject the worst aspects of…
The real reason the Kremlin will never completely disown the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
For Moscow, the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols which divided Eastern Europe between Hitler and Stalin…
A rare Russian glimpse of fate of Vlasovites forcibly returned to the USSR
There are many Stalinist crimes Russian writers either pass over in silence or minimize, but one that is…
Diplomatic tightrope and historical memory: Ukraine-Israel foreign policy audit
Relations between Ukraine and Israel are distant and close at the same time. As a home for the…
A century of Russian revolts against Soviet power
In 1974, Russian émigré journalist Yuri Srechinsky reacted with horror to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s suggestion in his GULAG Archipelago…
Not ‘constrained by communism’ – Why Putin is a greater threat than Brezhnev ever was
Some years ago, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who later became president of Estonia, suggested that “if the Russians were…
1962 Novocherkassk shootings led rise of dissident movement and end of Soviet system, historians say
The massacre of striking Novocherkassk workers by Soviet military units 55 years ago this week initially spread fear…
Documentary Genocide Revealed launches new web site
A new website has been launched highlighting the availability of the English, Ukrainian, French versions of the multi-award winning…
80 years ago, Stalin’s NKVD began to arrest and shoot the deaf and dumb
One of Hitler’s most heinous crimes was his execution of Germans with physical and mental handicaps, an action…
Washington becomes first US state to recognize Holodomor as genocide
On 22 May 2017, the Washington State Senate approved a resolution calling Holodomor "genocide by Stalin's regime against…
Germany’s historical responsibility towards Ukraine discussed in Bundestag
On 19 May 2017, Germany's Green party initiated debates on the topic of Germany's historical responsibility towards Ukraine. The…
Volodymyr Vyatrovych: Hopefully Ukraine will soon commemorate Victory Day on May 8
We don’t want to eliminate May 9; it will always be a day of remembrance and a moment…
The Soviet foundations of Russia’s Great Patriotic War myth
The myth of May 9 The largest myth of the Great Patriotic War is the concept that shifts its…
Moscow completely restores and promotes Stalinist conception of WW2, Pavlova says
The Putin regime not only has completely restored the Stalinist conception of World War II but is promoting…
Since 1945, Moscow has been involved in a military action on average every 2 years
Among the many messages the Kremlin wants Russians to take away from its celebrations of Victory Day is…
Even oppressed non-Russians made important contributions to war effort in WW2
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could…