Stalin
August 05, 2010By Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr Sofia Kalistratova, one of the few Soviet-era attorneys brave enough to represent dissidents in the courtroom, always urged her defendants to follow every minutia of the law so as not to give the authorities the luxury of...
Karaganov calls on Russians to repent for ‘Russian Katyn’ – the victims of Stalin
July 28, 2010by Paul Goble Russians have manifested “nobility and sympathy” to Poland over the Katyn massacres, but “so far, they have not found in themselves the strength to recognize that all Russia is one large Katyn” filled with &ldquo...
How Khrushchev tried and failed to restore the soviet statue of liberty Stalin had blown up
July 05, 2010by Paul Goble Apparently inspired by his visit to the United States, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to restore the Soviet Statue of Liberty that Stalin had destroyed in 1941, but he ran out of time – the restoration was scheduled to happen...
Are more border changes ahead in Eurasia?
May 21, 2010By Paul Goble Since 1991, the post-Soviet governments and the international community have been adamant against any change in the borders in Eurasia, and many expressed concerns that one of the results of Moscow’s decision to recognize...
90,000 Crimean Tatars remain in Exile on 66th anniversary of their deportation by Stalin
May 19, 2010By Paul Goble Today, Crimean Tatars and their friends and supporters marked the 66th anniversary of Stalin’s brutal deportation of that nationality on completely false charges that the Crimean Tatars had collaborated with the Germans, a deportation...
Shift to Soviet-Russian national identity in Ukraine
May 10, 2010By Taras Kuzio Yanukovych invites Russian soldiers to Ukrainian Victory Day parades The Viktor Yanukovych administration is undertaking a radical overhaul of Ukraine’s national identity that turns its back not only on the Yushchenko era, but...
Medvedev strikes conciliatory tone, condemning Stalin
May 10, 2010By Pavel K. Baev Dmitry Medvedev presides over the Victory Day celebrations and condemns Stalin Sixty five years normally would not be considered a significant anniversary, but Victory Day is special for all Russians, so every official fanfare was blown...
Real Victory celebration in 1945 was not on Red Square
April 13, 2010By Paul Goble The controversy over whether Stalin’s portraits will appear during the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of Victory Day is distracting attention from the reality that a military parade in Red Square represents “the...
Glenn Beck's "The Revolutionary Holocaust - Live Free... or Die"
April 12, 2010"The Revolutionary Holocaust - Live Free... or Die" first aired on January 22, 2010 on the Fox News Channel. Producer-host Glenn Beck lays bare some of the darkest forces in human history. He covers subjects such as the "Holomador,"...
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...