Stalin
Power vertical: Russians increasingly angry at flouting of the law
March 06, 2010By Paul Goble While Russians remain more deferential or even indifferent to the actions of the powers that be than many nations, they are increasingly agitated by two high profile cases in which members of the post-Soviet Russian elite have signaled...
Russia: Where Reichstag fires take place again and again
November 30, 2009By Paul Goble Tomorrow, December 1, is the 75th anniversary of the murder of Sergey Kirov, an action that Russian commentators continue to refer to as “the Stalinist version of [Hitler’s] Reichstag fire” because it opened the way...
Russia Must Face Up to Tragic Reality of Hitler-Stalin Alliance
September 17, 2009By Paul Goble Today’s Russians are in no way responsible for Stalin’s alliance with Hitler, but they must acknowledge its immorality if their calls for the creation of a new collective security system are to be taken seriously, the Memorial...
Molotov-Ribbentrop and Munich Not Equivalent Then or Now
September 02, 2009By Paul Goble Efforts by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials and commentators to justify the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Stalin’s ill-fated alliance with Hitler because of what British and French leaders had done in Munich...
Stalin Planned to Annex Parts of Iran, Turkey and China
August 31, 2009By Paul Goble Stalin viewed the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which allowed Moscow to seize the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, and part of Poland as “a model” for the subsequent annexation of portions of Iran, Turkey and...
Defenders of Molotov-Ribbentrop Reflect Moscow’s Authoritarianism
August 25, 2009By Paul Goble Pro-Kremlin ideologists have rushed to defend the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact not so much in order to revive Stalinism in all its dimensions but rather to exploit Stalin’s ultimately failed alliance with Hitler to promote “the...
Moldova still suffers from Nazi-Soviet Pact's pernicious results
August 22, 2009By Prof. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Ph.D., Washington, DC Tomorrow, August 23rd, the world will give passing note and a brief mention to the fact that some seventy years ago one of the most cynical and unscrupulous treaties in all of history was signed. It...
