Ukrainian foreign minister warns West against appeasing Russia as Kyiv marks WWII anniversary
Avoiding difficult decisions and favoring weakness over strength allowed evil to grow stronger in 1939, he said.
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The idol, the butcher: Expanding gap in attitudes toward Stalin reflects Ukraine and Russia’s diverging identities
Attitudes toward Stalin have become a powerful symbol of the deep divide between the two countries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…