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Pro-Russian Bulgarian politician claims part of territory from Ukraine, fueling Kremlin narratives

Bulgaria Revival party leader Kostadin Kostadinov has aligned with Russian messaging by declaring Ukraine's imminent collapse and demanding the return of Southern Bessarabia (a part of Odesa Oblast) to Bulgaria.

byVira Kravchuk

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Russia to raise taxes on wealthy persons and companies to fund Ukraine war

The Russian Finance Ministry has proposed significant tax hikes on corporations and wealthy individuals to raise approximately 2.6 trillion rubles annually, aiming to mitigate the fiscal deficit caused by the war in Ukraine.

byOlena Mukhina

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Iceland joins 25 countries that recognize Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians

The government of Iceland supported the resolution that officially recognized the artificial man-made famine Holodomor (death by hunger,…

bySerge Havrylets

Russian national minorities, gathered for a Forum of Free Nations in Prague, predicted Russia would fall apart into 34 entities. Photo: Forum of Free Nations/ Telegram

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No reason for Russia to disintegrate either under Putin or after him, Navalny movement leader says

The Navalny ally makes that argument about the fate of the Russian Federation on a YouTube video…

byPaul A. Goble

Tanks of Russia's elite Taman Division shelling the House of Soviets (now known as the White House) where the Supreme Soviet of Russia (its parliament, now known as State Duma) was located at the time. Moscow, October 4, 1993. Photo: TASS

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Why Putin is setting Russia up to lose far more than Moscow did in 1991

For almost three decades, Vladimir Putin has been saying and many in Russia and the West have followed…

byPaul A. Goble

Soviet secret order to convert German concentration camps to GULAG camps. Nazi concentration camps were used in this quality for five more years. Of them, some of the most infamous were Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen (special camps #2 and #7 in the Soviet terminology). Starting with 1948, the former Nazi concentration camps were transferred to GULAG, and destroyed only in the 1950s. The Soviets even saved their equipment and tools: the new owners moved it to the USSR and used for their intended purpose inside Soviet domestic concentration camps within the GULAG. This document states that the USSR took wooden barracks, kitchen, laundry, and medical equipment, as well as some so-called "production mechanisms." What was hidden under that menacing term the document did not explain. (Image: ГА РФ. Ф. 9414. ОП. 1С. Д. 360. Л. 222)

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After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says

The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…

byPaul A. Goble

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

Soviet armored troop carriers patrolling streets in Baku during the week of January 20, 1990. The photographer had to take this photo covertly through a car windshield, because it was too dangerous to openly photograph the Black January events. Photo: Reza.

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Demise of USSR was anything but bloodless

Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, it is perhaps not surprising that a number of…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainian music forbidden under Soviets comes to limelight in international project

Since the beginning of 2021, a young, driven team of music enthusiasts in Lviv has been working on…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

Stalin supervising the signing of the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact dividing Poland between Hitler's regime and his own, Aug 23, 1939. From left to right: Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Minister of Foreign Affairs; Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (sitting); Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator; Vladimir Pavlov, First Secretary of the Soviet embassy in Germany (Image: TASS)

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Black is white, freedom is slavery, and Stalin’s invasion of Poland was ‘a liberation campaign,’ Russian Foreign Ministry says

In Putin’s increasingly Orwellian approach to the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the introduction…

byPaul A. Goble

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Vitaly Portnikov: “The ghost of the Soviet Union was definitively buried in Ukraine in 2014”

Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov was forced to resign following a week of protests against the rigged parliamentary elections.…

byVitaly Portnikov

A Soviet propaganda poster. The Russian-language slogan on the left says: "All power to the Soviets!" The slogan on the right says: "We will achieve victory of Communist labor!"

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Soviet armored troop carriers patrolling streets in Baku during the week of January 20, 1990. The photographer had to take this photo covertly through a car windshield, because it was too dangerous to openly photograph the Black January events. Photo: Reza.

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Damage from Soviet aerial bombardment of Helsinki, Finland, 1939-1940 (Photo: Finnish Army via Wikimedia Commons)

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When the League of Nations expelled the USSR for bombing Finland

Seventy-nine years ago, on December 14, 1939, the League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union from membership for…

byPaul A. Goble

A screen capture of the interactive map of GULAG facilities in Moscow published by the Memorial organization at http://topos.memo.ru (Screen capture by Euromaidan Press)

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GULAG was not something far away in Siberia: it was all around, even in Moscow

Today, Russians of good will paused to remember those who had suffered and died in Stalin’s GULAG. This…

byPaul A. Goble

Russians must wait in food lines to get whatever goods are available in November 1991, just a month before the collapse of the USSR

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Russians urged to reflect on ‘inexplicable paradoxes of the Soviet Union’

A Moscow blogger has suggested that Russians now, when thinking about the Soviet past, should reflect on what…

byPaul A. Goble

Left: Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov), a Russian FSB colonel who participated in the Russian annexation of Crimea and played a key role in the initial phases of the Russian aggression in the Donbas, but has since returned to Russia. He is charged by Ukrainian authorities with terrorism and sanctioned by the European Union. Right: Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and politician, who has gained prominence as a critic of Russian government corruption. (Image: sputnikipogrom.com)

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For the chekists, Navalny is the Yeltsin of 1987, Portnikov says

Many have forgotten that in May 1987, Boris Yeltsin, then head of the Moscow city committee of the…

byPaul A. Goble

David Low named his political cartoon describing the German-Russian invasion of Poland that started the WW2 - "Rendezvous." The cartoon depicts a meeting by the two allied Nazi-Soviet dictators over the corpse of a Polish defender. Hitler says to Stalin while smiling, lifting his hat and bowing: "The Scum of the Earth, I believe?" and Stalin responds to him "The Bloody Assassin of the Workers, I presume?" while smiling, bowing and lifting his in kind. The secret agreement on the division of Poland that was part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was not yet known, but nonetheless, Low recognized what happened and drew it in this work. (Image: The Evening Standard (UK), September 20, 1939 issue)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

A man kisses an icon of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin next to his grave in front of the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

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No foreigner cracked Russians’ top ten statesmen of all times and places

The Levada Center poll concerning whom Russians see as the most outstanding statesmen of all times and places…

byPaul A. Goble