Soviet repressions Archives - Euromaidan Press

A priest conducts a memorial service beside Yevhen Konovalets’ flag-draped coffin, surrounded by flowers and an honor guard in Kyiv.

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He fought for Ukrainian independence until a Soviet chocolate-box bomb killed him. Now Ukraine plans to honor him permanently

Ukrainian leader Yevhen Konovalets’ remains returned from Rotterdam after 88 years and are set for temporary reburial at Ukraine’s National Military Memorial Cemetery.

byDaniel Thomas

GULAG prisoners awaiting commands from the guard. Millions of Soviet and foreign citizens were killed, starved or worked to death in camps like this. (Image: thegulag.org)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byRadio Liberty

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Soviet-era repression, deportation & famine wiped out a third of Ukraine’s population

Read also: Austrian engineer captures the horror of the Holodomor in 1932-33 …

byRadio Liberty

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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…

byChristine Chraibi

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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…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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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…

byBohdan Ben

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History of Ukraine

“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…

byBohdan Ben

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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…

byBohdan Ben

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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…

byUkrainian media sources

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Political prisoners

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.…

byUkraineWorld Group

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin the TV Puppet Master (Image: Zina Saunders)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

'The Motherland Hears You' by popular Russian artist Vasya Lozhkin. (A satirical depiction of omnipresent domestic surveillance by Russian security services, such as the FSB, police, tax revenue enforcement, etc.)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

Rebellious Cossacks before execution by the Red Army

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Monument to death and dumb victims of Stalin's political repressions at Levashovsky Cemetary near St. Petersburg, Russia opened on 29 October 2008. (Image: social media)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byIhor Vynokurov

A sign at the site of the murder of the prominent Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov near the Kremlin in Moscow (Image: nemtsov.org)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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Historical and Spiritual Univ Monastery

Univ Monastery is located near the village of Univ, about 50 kilometres from Lviv (western Ukraine). There are…

byUkrainian media sources

Soviet repressions

He fought for Ukrainian independence until a Soviet chocolate-box bomb killed him. Now Ukraine plans to honor him permanently

30 years on, only one Russian in 100 connects USSR with Red Terror, shootings and GULAG

How Ukraine is healing the traumatic wounds of colonialism

Soviet-era repression, deportation & famine wiped out a third of Ukraine’s population

Ukrainian women, among many others, executed by the NKVD in Dubno prison on June 24-25, 1941

How important were the Soviet dissidents: the case of Ukraine

Slovo House — how a special Soviet apartment block for writers became their prison

“The case of Vasyl Stus” demands justice for KGB agent turned oligarch in Ukraine

Recovering the forgotten names of the Ukrainian avant-garde

Oksana Zabuzhko: Ukraine is at the forefront of a huge world battle that will transform humanity

From Stus to Sentsov: Ukraine’s Soviet-era political prisoners of the Kremlin

Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says

To rule Russia, Putin doesn’t need mass murders: he has TV, Khersonsky says

Russia’s FSB no longer ‘new nobility’ but only tool like old KGB, Soldatov and Borogan say

Gandalf’s case: Russia prosecutes man literally digging up its darkest Gulag secrets

A century of Russian revolts against Soviet power

80 years ago, Stalin’s NKVD began to arrest and shoot the deaf and dumb

Ukrainians discover stories of repressed relatives in newly opened KGB archives

Like his ‘hybrid wars,’ Putin’s ‘hybrid repressions’ are all too real, Tuomi says

Historical and Spiritual Univ Monastery

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