Documents reveal Soviet repressions against those resisting Holodomor genocidal famine
Previously unknown documents reveal the scale of Soviet repression against peasant dissenters against collectivization and forced expulsion of…
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The history behind “Bitter Harvest,” dramatic movie about the Holodomor
Over the last year the Holodomor has garnered much needed additional publicity, in part due to the current…
Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations
A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…
Kuropaty, the Soviet killing fields in Belarus — world must not forget
Zianon Pazniak, who 28 years ago published an article exposing the Soviet killing fields at Kuropaty, a wooded…
June 22, 1941 – the day Hitler and Stalin ceased to be allies
Seventy-five years ago, Adolf Hitler attacked the USSR, thus ending a period of almost two years when he…
Lenin statues to stand in Russia, but to fall in its successor states, Shtepa says
Sometimes a brief Facebook post can say in brief compass more than an extended discourse of article or…
Archives show Stalin was ready to give Hitler Ukraine and the Baltics
A few days after Hitler broke his alliance with Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet dictator…
Stalin’s deportation of Baltic peoples in June 1941 remembered
Seventy-five years ago today, when Stalin was Hitler’s ally, Moscow began the forcible deportation of tens of thousands…
How public should the Soviet KGB archives be?
One of the results of the Maidan is the transfer of the KGB archives to the National Memory…
Why compare the Holodomor and the Holocaust
Professor Philippe de Lara gave a lecture about the unique nature of the two genocides: the Holocaust as…
By taking over state archives, Putin makes a serious error
Vladimir Putin has committed many crimes, but his political tactics at least from his own point of view…
Building a new Russia means rooting out Stalin’s destructive Soviet legacy
Sixty years ago at the XXth Congress of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union], Nikita Khrushchev…
Communist crimes against Ukrainians give them many reasons to ban Communist party
On 16 December 2015, the Kyiv District Administrative Court banned activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine. This came…
Why be concerned about the Memorial to the Victims of Communism controversy in Canada?
More than 8 million Canadians can trace their origins to countries that have been oppressed under Communist regimes.…
Orwell Art: lessons on democracy, civic engagement and global citizenship
When a voice remains silent and a story untold, the world is deprived of some aspect of truth…
Why don’t Russians commemorate the Terror Famine?
Today Ukrainians around the world commemorated the Holodomor, the terror famine Stalin directed against the peasantry in the…
Holodomor or death by starvation changes people’s genotype, say psychologists
Fear of dying of starvation has led many Ukrainians to believe that when it comes to choosing between…
Documents show massive export of products from Ukraine during Holodomor
The once-secret documents from the Russian State Archives of Economy have been posted online in the Electronic Archive of the Liberation Movement Research Centre on the eve of the 82nd anniversary of the Holodomor.
Russian court labels Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide”, an extremist
Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), scholar, lawyer and one of the “people of the truth” who testified about the Holodomor…
SBU Archive director: “Cause of death – Ukrainian” in 1933 registry
A press conference devoted to the 82nd anniversary of the Holodomor was recently held at the National Museum…