Stalin Archives - Euromaidan Press

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Analysis

Why Ukraine can’t just “make peace”: top historian explains what the West gets wrong about peace with Russia

While the West calls for Ukraine’s concessions to Russia, historian Yaroslav Hrytsak warns of what's really at stake a nation’s last chance to break free from centuries of imperial bloodshed.

byBohdan Ben

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History of Ukraine

Inside the West’s fatal peace deal with the Kremlin that exploded into the Cold War

When Western leaders came to Yalta to forge global peace, they instead handed Moscow the tools to enslave Europe — a fatal mistake Putin tricks the West into repeating.

byOksana Ostapchuk

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Opinion

The enduring lessons of Stalin’s wartime endgame

If Western efforts to contain Soviet expansionism taught us anything, it is that the only way to deter totalitarian thugs is to confront them.

byChris Patten

Militarized individuals who disrupted the commemoration day for the victims of the Great Purge at the Sandarmokh memorial site in Russia.

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Latest news Ukraine

Echoes of Stalin’s terror: Great Purge memorial day faces interference from “Russian patriots”

The Memorial Day for the victims of Stalin’s regime, including thousands of Ukrainians, at the Sandarmokh memorial site in Russia was interrupted by militarised patriotic individuals, who celebrated Soviet military glory.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Stalin devalued human life in the same way as Putin, Borrel says

EU top diplomat Josep Borrell underscores the similarity between Stalin's and Putin's attitudes toward human life, highlighting the importance of EU unity in aiding Ukraine against Russian aggression, citing substantial support at the Ambassadors Conference.

byYuri Zoria

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Army of marauders: the long history of Russian military looting, pillaging, and stealing

Military marauding is an enduring concept in warfare. However, the sight of Russian soldiers pillaging, killing and looting…

byUkrainian media sources

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

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 6)

Hundreds of thousands of families lost their means of subsistence. They were scattered across the Soviet country: some…

byRadio Liberty

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 5)

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…

byRadio Liberty

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 4)

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…

byRadio Liberty

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 3)

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…

byRadio Liberty

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 2)

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and…

byRadio Liberty

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 1)

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and…

byRadio Liberty

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Russian liberals opened the way for return of Stalinism, Inozsemtsev says

That is because the ways they chose to attack Stalin had the effect of separating the dictator from…

byPaul A. Goble

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KGB archives: How the NKVD crushed young patriotic OUN members in Melitopol region

Twenty years of hard labour – for the young man, ten years in a penal colony – for…

byUkrainian media sources

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Putin’s victory parade & Crimea land grab are a throwback to Stalinist times: Vitaly Portnikov

Why is Putin in such a hurry to stage this parade? After all, he has more important issues…

byVitaly Portnikov

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Sürgünlik: Remembering Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944

On May 10, 1944, Lavrentiy Beria, the notorious chief of the NKVD (Soviet security and secret police), recommended…

byChristine Chraibi

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History of Ukraine

80 years ago Stalin deported German anti-fascist, communist, Jewish refugees to Hitler

The pact with Stalin made it possible for Germany to unleash a military attack on Poland just one…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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How Stalin destroyed the Crimean Tatar intellectual elite

Major changes in political strategy swept the USSR towards the end of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937-1938,…

byRadio Liberty

A heavily-protected Russian entry point into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea annexed by Russia in March 2014 (Image: Kommersant.ru)

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Crimea – not sanctions – real harbinger of demise of Russian Federation, Telegram channel says

A compelling argument can be made that the Soviet Union died when it did and not much later…

byPaul A. Goble