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While the reputation of Stalin suffered when the horror of his purges were revealed, he is still much admired by some ...
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Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but ...
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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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 ...
Last week saw the unveiling of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Moscow Metro’s Taganskaya Station, a replica of a piece that was installed in 1950 and removed during the de-Stalinization of the early ...
Nearly half of the movies vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival are set in different decades of ...
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 ...
Omole launches a slanderous attack on Trotskyism, celebrating the Stalinist bureaucracy’s counterrevolutionary role in destroying the Bolshevik Party, orchestrating the Great Purges of 1936 ...