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…
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How Ukraine is healing the traumatic wounds of colonialism
Ukraine is gradually learning to discuss its history, analyze traumatic historical events, understand the consequences of colonialialism, and…
Soviet-era repression, deportation & famine wiped out a third of Ukraine’s population
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Ukrainian women, among many others, executed by the NKVD in Dubno prison on June 24-25, 1941
It is extremely difficult to pinpoint the exact number of deaths in Ukraine within these two days. Estimates…
How important were the Soviet dissidents: the case of Ukraine
Those who were active in Ukrainian diaspora communities in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s were keenly aware of…
Slovo House — how a special Soviet apartment block for writers became their prison
At the end of the 1920s, a unique house in the shape of a letter C was built…
“The case of Vasyl Stus” demands justice for KGB agent turned oligarch in Ukraine
The story of Vasyl Stus finally gained popularity in Ukraine, when film and books on his life appeared…
Recovering the forgotten names of the Ukrainian avant-garde
Prior to 1917, four-fifths of the territory of contemporary Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire for…
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…
From Stus to Sentsov: Ukraine’s Soviet-era political prisoners of the Kremlin
In the late 1920s to early 1930s, Soviet authorities continuously targeted different groups of intellectuals with repressive measures.…
Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says
The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the…
To rule Russia, Putin doesn’t need mass murders: he has TV, Khersonsky says
There are as yet no mass repressions in Russia, but there is “simply no need for them,” Ukrainian…
Russia’s FSB no longer ‘new nobility’ but only tool like old KGB, Soldatov and Borogan say
The role of Russia’s security services changed in the last year, Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan say. It…
Gandalf’s case: Russia prosecutes man literally digging up its darkest Gulag secrets
In Petrozavodsk on June 1 began the trial of one of the most amazing people I have ever…
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…
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…
Ukrainians discover stories of repressed relatives in newly opened KGB archives
Russia and Ukraine hold the world’s largest documentary collections of Communist secret services that ceased to exist in…
Like his ‘hybrid wars,’ Putin’s ‘hybrid repressions’ are all too real, Tuomi says
Some in Russia and in the West appear to think that if one inserts the world “hybrid” in…
Historical and Spiritual Univ Monastery
Univ Monastery is located near the village of Univ, about 50 kilometres from Lviv (western Ukraine). There are…
USSR dead? Not in Russia-occupied Crimea!
Did you ever think of what basic reason drives some people in Russia-occupied Crimea to support Putin? No,…