Putin is ‘a criminal but not Stalin’ and other neglected Russian stories
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Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 1: The interwar prelude
More than we think, Soviet propaganda has influenced the way in which many see World War II. This…
On 73rd anniversary of deportation, Chechnya and Ingushetia divide on Stalin and his crimes
Seventy-three years ago today, Stalin the two Vaynakh nations, the Chechens and the Ingush, thousands of whom lost…
‘Enemy of the people’ is a Russian — not an American — term
An enormous and completely justified effort is now going to determine how Moscow influenced the US elections last…
Talk about ‘hybrid’ regime obscures Putin’s creation of a ‘neo-Stalinist state,’ Pavlova says
Talk the supposedly “hybrid” nature of the Russian state now with its insistence that everyone avoid comparing it…
Basis of Putin’s optimism: big US Firms were quite ready to overlook even Stalin’s crimes
A Russian blogger says that the basis of Vladimir Putin’s optimism about a new relationship between Moscow and…
How Putin’s Russia is becoming Stalin’s USSR
When the Kursk submarine sank, Vladimir Putin said a prophetic phrase that probably could be applied to the…
Moscow analyst: Britain’s support for Poland, not Molotov-Ribbentrop, caused WW2, and its backing of Ukraine could trigger WW3
Moscow analyst Yury Mukhin offers an historical analogy which says far more than he intends. In a new…
The Holodomor of 1932-33. Why Stalin feared Ukrainians
The memory of Holodomor entered the Ukrainian national consciousness only during the perestroika years. It is difficult to…
Historian Martyniuk: Ukrainian homes were massively occupied by Russian settlers
– There were thousands and thousands of empty houses that had once belonged to Ukrainian families. Moscow’s strategy…
So how many Ukrainians died in the Holodomor?
The main issue being disputed is the number of people that died from starvation – it ranges from…
Stalin starved populations to death to russify Ukraine, North Caucasus and Kazakhstan, statistics show
Today, Ukrainians and people of good will around the world will mark the Day in Memory of the…
HOLODOMOR 1933: Light a candle in your window
Professor Mace wrote the following article for DEN newspaper on February 18, 20013: I was allotted five minutes…
Remembering Soviet atrocities: Solovki and Sandarmokh
Ukrainian historians and activists, who have been travelling every year to the Solovetsky Islands in the extreme north…
“Moscow borrowed Dracula’s management techniques” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Hitler-Stalin pact still casts a shadow over Europe 77 years on
Seventy-seven years ago, Hitler and Stalin reached the agreement on the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of…
June 22, 1941 – the day Hitler and Stalin ceased to be allies
Seventy-five years ago, Adolf Hitler attacked the USSR, thus ending a period of almost two years when he…
Archives show Stalin was ready to give Hitler Ukraine and the Baltics
A few days after Hitler broke his alliance with Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet dictator…
Stalin’s deportation of Baltic peoples in June 1941 remembered
Seventy-five years ago today, when Stalin was Hitler’s ally, Moscow began the forcible deportation of tens of thousands…
I survived genocide. Stories of survivors of Crimean Tatar deportation
On 18-20 May 1944, the Crimean Tatar population of Crimea was deported on Moscow’s orders. This forcible eviction…
