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The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of ...
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A monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin erected in Moscow’s subway is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as ...
MARTIN GREEN is a long-standing multi-instrumentalist folk performer and composer, best known as the accordions in the innovative folk trio Lau.
A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow's metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it's a mistake to commemorate ...
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Nearly half of the movies vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival are set in different decades of ...
Building upon the legacy of Stalinist falsifications of the history of the Second World War, the Putin regime falsely ...
PETA has put Niagara Parks on blast for its “deafening,” months-long, nightly fireworks display, emphasizing that the group can put on a show that still features “wow without the pow.” ...
Despite that, the killing allowed Stalin to unleash the great purges in which he wiped out the remaining ... However, the idea that Leninism seamlessly morphed into Stalinism is so dominant, this gap ...
In the USSR during Stalin’s regime, show trials were a tool of political repression. The trials were orchestrated events that coerced confessions out of innocent people. The end was to consolidate ...