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.
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…