Tag: USSR

Mustafa Barzani and his time in the USSR

Dr Elena Rounkova is a graduate of Moscow State University Institute of Asian an...

Communists take power in Czechoslovakia

25 February 1948.

Roy Medvedev, Soviet dissident historian who exposed St...

He was the first historian to calculate the number of Stalin’s victims: ‘Not one...

Welcome to the real Soviet Union – primitive, brutal an...

Mark B Smith’s magnificent new history, Exit Stalin, lays bare the reality of da...

Ukrainian nationalists commemorate WWII-era Nazi collab...

A torch-lit parade was held in the city of Lviv marking the 117th birthday of St...

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov released from internal...

19 December 1986. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) was a Soviet nuclear p...

Nazi crimes have no statute of limitations – Putin

The Nuremberg Tribunal in which Third Reich leaders were tried helps counter att...

Miroslaw Chojecki, Polish dissident publisher who flood...

Circulation of illicit reading material in Poland grew so large that he was dubb...