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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
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?
[editorial]Is your favorite band on this list of 50 musical groups deemed “harmful” and outlawed during the USSR?[/editorial]…
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?
[editorial]In 2016, we published Paul Goble’s article “When Ukrainians came to the aid of Finland against the USSR:…
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…
‘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…
Ukraine is a major battleground for understanding WWII: historian Serhii Plokhii
[editorial]A recent poll conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Fund reveals that on the 75th anniversary of WWII, Ukrainians…
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…
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…
Latvian Saeima becomes first foreign parliament to recognize genocide of the Crimean Tatars
Two days ago, the Latvian Saeima became the first foreign parliament to adopt a resolution recognizing Soviet treatment…
Russia didn’t ‘feed’ the USSR: the entire USSR ‘fed’ the nomenklatura, Mirovich says
One of the most widespread myths in Russia today is that in Soviet times, Russia took care of…
The rise and decline of Donbas: how the region became “the heart of Soviet Union” and why it fell to Russian hybrid war
The demographic portrait of the region: how Russian propaganda used it The ethnicity map of Ukraine suggests that…