Moscow analyst: War in Donbas marks ‘the irreversible and absolute end of the era of Russian empires’
The chauvinism Russia’s war against Ukraine has unleashed is becoming the grave digger of imperial consciousness among Russians,…
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Aggression against Ukraine leads to Russia’s catastrophic fall
This war cost the USSR no less than six billion dollars per year and finally ruined the economy…
No Russian Fairytale: Ending the Soviet historical mindset in Ukraine
Until recently, 28 October was celebrated in Ukraine as the “Day of liberation of Ukraine from fascist invaders.”…
An ethnoconflictologist on Putin’s ethnic engineering
Imantas Melianas: “We have been declared a full-scale ‘Russian World’” Vilnius, August 8 (New Region) – The Russian…
Sanctions will allow young Russians to experience Soviet reality, Borovoy says
The imposition of Western sanctions on Russia will allow its younger citizens to “find out what they until…
Russian culture and the USSR: The return of the walking dead
“Those who are not sorry about the dissolution of the USSR have no heart. And those who want…
Who started World War II and who could start World War III?
An overview of books and publications on alternative views of the military history of WWII 1939-1941. Possible applications…
History repeating itself: 1943 soldier’s grave found by the Ukrainian military
Wings Phoenix, one of Ukraine’s volunteers supplying the Army with necessary equipment, shared a story from the frontlines.…
New “old” Russian imperialism and hybrid wars – an historical overview
by Vitalii Usenko and Dmytro Usenko Russia and Russian-backed terrorists are starting to use new tactics. Openly demonstrative…
60 years ago this week, Ukrainians rose up against the Soviet GULAG at Kengir
Sixty years ago this week, non-Russian prisoners rose up in Kengir against their Soviet GULAG jailors. They were…
Russians cannot be allowed to leave their territory, otherwise they will ruin European civilisation: published in 1927, written as if yesterday
Today the civilised world doesn’t have to think what to do with Russia – liberal European thinkers have…
The ideological corruption of Ukraine’s Army
Ihor Losyev, Radio Svoboda, May 22, 2014 The events in Crimea and now in the Donbas have…
Generation Ї
Volodymyr Viatrovych Putin is a generation late with implementing his plans. While he was preparing, a new generation…
Putin’s ‘Minimum Program’ is Restoration of USSR, Portnikov Says
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, April 28 – Vladimir Putin’s moves against Ukraine are part…
Putinism as the last Phase of Sovietism
By Robert van Voren IntroductionAgain the world is watching while heavily armed unidentified men in green camouflage suits…
Seven Decades Ago, the Soviet Union Entered the War as the Chief “Accomplice of Hitlerism”
Oleksandr Paliy for UP Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 12:01 When the current Russian government throws angry accusations of…
ARE “FOREIGN AGENTS” HEROES?
Feb. 3, 2014 Lately I wake up in the middle of the night with a complexity of thoughts…
Shall we wait for fatal shots?
Josef Hofman — 18 March 2014, 15:00 The last witness of the Nuremberg process, a 87-years-old Ukrainian citizen from Poltava,…
Ukraine to claim its part of assets of the former USSR illegally owned by Russia
Kyiv, March 16, 2014 Oleksandra Kondratenko On March 16, 2014, during the session of the Cabinet of Ministers…
How Ukraine rebuilt Crimea (“Khrushchev’s Gift”)
A look back to 1954 when the Soviet leadership, not Khrushchev, decided to transfer Crimea to Ukraine You…