The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
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Stalin's Most Deadly Famine
Holodomor was the man-made famine of 1932-1933 that saw millions of people die due to instructions laid out by Joseph Stalin, head of the USSR.
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Ukraine uses souped-up Soviet-era weapons to defend a vital river from Russia
As Ukraine's line of defense grows thin, this unit is using a modernized Soviet-era vehicle to stop Russian forces from ...
Igor Levitas about the embezzlers in the Kursk region: Stalin is not on them
What do you think, which feeling does a person have more: patriotism, passion for money or fear? It seems that many people's ...
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‘Bad Things Happened’: Trump Still Doesn’t Understand the Ukraine War
A victory for Putin means, in due time, a re-charting of the entire map of Europe, to suit his vision of a Russian empire ...
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Beyond propaganda: the USSR and its grave responsibility in the Holocaust
The complicity of the USSR in the extermination of Jews by the Nazis and in its concealment. On the role of the USSR not only ...
The horror of Auschwitz in pictures: Images taken during death camp's liberation 80 years ago show skeletal survivors, mountains of possessions and the Nazis' attempt…
These were the horrific scenes that met the Soviet 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front as they opened the gates of ...
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Was the USSR a Colonial Power?
The idea of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) as a colonial power remains a contentious issue. During the Cold ...
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Lukashenko expects Ukraine’s revival to need Stalin-like figure
Aleksandr Lukashenko is convinced that the West is definitely not interested in the restoration and development of Ukraine ...
New music director brings 'Heroic Spirit' to Sarasota Orchestra concert
Giancarlo Guerrero, who will take over as music director of Orchestra in the fall, leads the Masterworks program 'Heroic ...
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to ...
Gifted storyteller Kim Yaroshevskaya ignited the imaginations of francophone children
After a childhood in Russia in which Yaroshevskaya was deprived of owning a doll, she went on to embody one on television as Fanfreluche as she read from, riffed on and interpreted children’s fairy ...