USSR 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

What makes Russian spies tick? World's largest declassified KGB archive, in Ukraine, tells all

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History of Ukraine

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.

byOlha Aivazovska

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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

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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

byOrysia Hrudka

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Analysis

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"

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

Latest news Ukraine

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…

byAlya Shandra

Latvia slams Russia's attempts to rebuild Soviet Empire

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International

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…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

GULAG prisoners awaiting commands from the guard. Millions of Soviet and foreign citizens were killed, starved or worked to death in camps like this. (Image: thegulag.org)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Soviet armored troop carriers patrolling streets in Baku during the week of January 20, 1990. The photographer had to take this photo covertly through a car windshield, because it was too dangerous to openly photograph the Black January events. Photo: Reza.

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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History of Ukraine

Which western bands were banned in the USSR?

KISS – neo-fascism, punk, violence Led Zeppelin – punk, violence Madonna – sex What the hell is this?…

byKGB Files

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Lt.-Col. Yuriy Gorlis-Gorsky, Ukrainian independence fighter, political leader, poet, writer (1898-1946)

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History of Ukraine

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 …

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byChristine Chraibi

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

A billboard by the Russian Election Committee promoting the July 1, 2020 nationwide referendum on the constitutional amendments removing legal restrictions for Vladimir Putin to maintain his power over the country through 2036. It says: "July 1 - Our Future." (Photo: wikipedia.org)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Mustafa Dzhemilev (Photo: Stanislav Yurchenko, RFE/RL)

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‘Crimean Tatar tragedy of 1944 being repeated’ and with more damaging effect, Dzhemilev says

Seventy-six years ago on May 18, Stalin ordered the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homelands to…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukraine is a major battleground for understanding WWII: historian Serhii Plokhii

This year, May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War 2. Just prior to…

byRadio Liberty

Ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear power station. Photo: belaruspartisan.org

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Putin’s nuclear arms blackmail caused a ‘mini-Chornobyl’

When the Chornobyl nuclear accident took place in 1986, the behavior of the Soviet powers that be was…

byPaul A. Goble

Deportation of the Crimean Tatars. A painting by Crimean Tatar artist Rustem Eminov. The entire population of Crimean Tatars who survived the German occupation of the peninsula (over 200 000) was deported by Stalin just in two days. In packed and locked railroad cattle cars and with few provisions and water, they were sent on an arduous journey to remote rural locations in Central Asia and Siberia. Over 46 percent of the Crimean Tatar people perished during the trip and in the first 2 years of the exile due to the harsh conditions. A year after the deportation when the WW2 ended, demobilized Crimean Tatar soldiers were sent from the Soviet Army directly into exile too.

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75 years after deportation, Moscow’s genocide of the Crimean Tatars continues

On May 18, Crimean Tatars and their supporters around the world marked the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation…

byPaul A. Goble