Why does Russia speak of Ukraine with sense of superiority? Arrogance runs long before today’s war
Even inside the Soviet system, Ukrainians wanted out. Veselovskyi says most diplomats dreamed of independence.
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Russia slaughters civilians in Ukraine daily, Medvedev lectures Finland about “gratitude” to Lenin
Moscow's Security Council chief demanded Helsinki thank the Bolshevik leader for recognizing Finnish independence while issuing implicit threats about 20th-century conflicts not being in Finland's "favor."
Only Ukraine can slay the Soviet “victory myth” that fuels Putin’s war
As a USSR founder, Ukraine must condemn its Soviet past and dismantle the WWII dragon powering Putin's imperial ambitions.
Berlin court upholds ban on USSR symbols for 8–9 May
The court justified banning USSR flags as they could suggest militant intent or sympathy for Russian aggression during the memorial days.
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.
What makes Russian spies tick? World’s largest declassified KGB archive, in Ukraine, tells all
Russian spies don't innovate - they study and update decades-old KGB manuals, says Andriy Kohut, who oversees the world's largest collection of declassified Soviet intelligence files that Moscow mistakenly abandoned in Ukraine.
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.
Russia’s child brainwashing handbook: victim from 78 years ago speaks out
Echoing crimes of today, in 1945, daughter of Ukrainian Insurgent Army leader was forcibly sent away, given fabricated Russian identity, and raised to hail the Communists
The real reason Russia calls everyone Nazis
Russia is branding all opponents of its fascism as fascists and Nazis, but why? Look to the Soviet deformation of history, which conjured the "eternal war of the West against Russia"
Soviet nostalgia among Ukrainians plummets after Russian invasion – poll
While the number of Ukrainians nostalgic for the USSR dropped after the start of Russia's war against Ukraine…
Russia aims to rebuild Soviet Empire, Latvian President says, urging arms for Ukraine
On 26 January, Latvia's President Egils Levits issued a statement on the growing threat of Russian aggression against…
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…
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…
Which western bands were banned in the USSR?
KISS - neo-fascism, punk, violence Led Zeppelin - punk, violence Madonna - sex What the hell is this?…
Demise of USSR might have been delayed but not prevented by Bolshevik-style bloodshed, Milyuk says
But they ignore the reality that centrifugal forces were already so great, the leader of the Other Russia…
Did a Ukrainian unit really come to the aid of Finland in the Winter War?
Did a Ukrainian unit really come to the help of Finland in the Winter War? FACT CHECK: FALSE …
Soviet special services regularly reinforced Politburo’s view of the world, archives in Ukraine show
The archive contains some 1300 folders with the first reports being from the 1920s and the last from…
Kremlin planned to destabilize Ukraine in the early 1990s by smearing “all forms of nationalism,” KGB file reveals
This declaration did not please the Kremlin and caused quite a stir in Moscow and in the ranks…
1990s last time when Soviet faith in sudden transformation was widespread in Russia, Kuznetsov says
“For many people of the older generation,” he writes, “any promise of a bright future or talks that…
Putin restoring Brezhnev constitution that led to perestroika, Shtepa says
But in restoring what is very much a Leonid Brezhnev-style constitution, the Russian regionalist says, the Kremlin leader…