Story of Frants Brzhezytsky, last Ukrainian survivor of Majdanek concentration camp
Franz Carlowitz Březicki (Ukr: Frants Karlovych Brzhezytsky) was born in a modest Polish working family in Zhytomyr on…
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World War II / WW2 / Second World War (1939-1945)
The real reason the Kremlin will never completely disown the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
For Moscow, the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols which divided Eastern Europe between Hitler and Stalin…
A rare Russian glimpse of fate of Vlasovites forcibly returned to the USSR
There are many Stalinist crimes Russian writers either pass over in silence or minimize, but one that is…
Nazi dreams of an enslaved Ukraine: the blind spot of Germany’s historical memory – Timothy Snyder
When we ask why historical responsibility, why German historical responsibility, I want to begin from the universal point…
Germany’s historical responsibility towards Ukraine discussed in Bundestag
On 19 May 2017, Germany’s Green party initiated debates on the topic of Germany’s historical responsibility towards Ukraine. The…
No one denies Soviet Army defeated Hitler but Russians won’t admit it occupied those it liberated, Tatyana Ross says
For Russians, Victory Day is an ever more important date; but they act as if May 9 was…
Volodymyr Vyatrovych: Hopefully Ukraine will soon commemorate Victory Day on May 8
We don’t want to eliminate May 9; it will always be a day of remembrance and a moment…
Putin’s Victory Parade – a horrific Orwellian exercise, Khots says
“’The Victory Parade’ in Putin’s Russia is unique in its absurdity, one in which an imperial army presents…
The Soviet foundations of Russia’s Great Patriotic War myth
The myth of May 9 The largest myth of the Great Patriotic War is the concept that shifts its…
Moscow completely restores and promotes Stalinist conception of WW2, Pavlova says
The Putin regime not only has completely restored the Stalinist conception of World War II but is promoting…
Even oppressed non-Russians made important contributions to war effort in WW2
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could…
Putin reaffirms Stalinist version of origins of World War II, Pavlova says
No issue is as sensitive in Russian society as World War II, a conflict Russians call “The Great…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 3: The way to European catastrophe
Read the previous parts: 1) The interwar prelude 2) Hitler’s Anschluss In the West, much sympathy existed with Hitler…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 2: Hitler’s Anschluss
Read the previous part: The interwar prelude If Stalin had an ambition for the conquest of Poland, so…
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…
New Reichstag for Moscow children to storm – ‘a universal meme’ for Putin’s Russia, Movchan says
Last week the Russian defense ministry said that it was building “a mini-Reichstag” at a Moscow amusement park…
77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of Poland
Many people forget that Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II.…
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…
A short history of the Ukrainian greeting “Slava Ukrayini!”
Historians claim that the phrase “Slava Ukrayini!” (Glory to Ukraine!) first appeared in the Black Zaporozhtsi Cavalry Regiment,…