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70 years ago today: 13-14 June 1941, 300,000 were deported from Bessarabia
June 15, 2011Deportations of people from historic Moldova were first put in practice under czarist rule. Under Soviet rule, several waves of deportations of Moldova's native population were carried out: the first one just months before the outbreak of World War II...
Why the war in Europe did not end in 1945
April 27, 2010Aistė Bertulytė-Žikevičienė, Vilnius University (2009) Armed anti-Soviet resistance in Lithuania and Western Ukraine European countries tend to commemorate various anniversaries each year. These commemorations mark the symbolism and the role...
Resistance to Soviets in Baltics, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus
April 27, 2010By Paul Goble New Russian Web Site Highlights Resistance to Soviets in Baltics, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus after World War II A new Russian website intended to ensure no one forgets what it calls “the victims of nationalist terror in...
Poland: Opportunity in tragedy
April 21, 2010By Michal Baranowski This past weekend Poland said goodbye to President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and dozens of members of the political and military elite who died on April 10 in Russia’s Katyn forest. As Poland begins to emerge from a...
Russian and Polish leaders to mark Katyn anniversary for the first time
April 06, 2010Seven decades ago, Soviet secret police executed thousands of Polish military officers in a forest in Western Russia. On April 7, Russian and Polish leaders will meet to officially commemorate the massacre's anniversary together for the first time. Russian...
Memorial calls on Medvedev to denounce Katyn as crime against humanity
March 06, 2010By Paul Goble On the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s decision to execute more than 21,000 Polish officers at Katyn and other places, the Memorial human rights group has urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to denounce that action as a crime against...
Opposition urges CoE's Terry Davis to condemn Moldovan Communists
July 16, 2009The leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), Vlad Filat, today sent an open letter to Council of Europe's (CE) Secretary-General Terry Davis, proposing that a new chapter on the 21st century communism should be added to the CE resolution...