Several dozen people gathered at the new monument to Joseph Stalin in the provincial town of Bor in central Russia, according to NBC News. Fans praised the late Soviet dictator, and event organizers laid a concrete cornerstone to celebrate what would become a Stalin center, museum and educational ...
In Novosibirsk, Russia, a monument to Joseph Stalin was inaugurated on the anniversary of the victory. About 200 people with portraits of Stalin and red flags came to the courtyard of the regional branch of the Communist Party, where the bust was installed. The ceremony participants said that Stalin's policies contributed to the prosperity of the USSR. AND…
Mikheil Saakashvili, ex-president of Georgia and former governor of the Odessa region, spoke about his grandmother, who saved Joseph Stalin. He wrote about this on his Facebook account. “My great-grandmother Tamara told me how she saved Stalin from the tsarist gendarmes, took him out...
October 30 in Russia is the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression. But how many people were killed in the USSR during the “Great Terror” of 1937-39, as well as before and after it, is still not known exactly. As “Present Tense” writes,...
Busts of Soviet leaders, including Joseph Stalin, appeared in the center of Moscow in Petroverigsky lane on the so-called "Alley of rulers" organized by the Russian Military Historical Society. Earlier in May, busts of Russian tsars were installed here. The exposition was completed by the head of the Provisional Government in 1917 ...
Thanks to the new technology, the three families, separated almost a century ago, found a friend and met in Israel. The story of the family and how everyone can find relatives in any part of the world is told by Vesty. When the Zionist Shabtai Baskin fled the USSR in 1947 ...
Today is the Day of Remembrance of Political Repression. There is a lot of talk in Moscow about victims and executioners. The Jews were both, and the executioners themselves often ended up in their own meat grinder. Here I am looking at a document that is 75 years old - from 13...
An unusual emergency occurred in the center of Moscow, near the Okhotny Ryad metro station. Stalin's and Lenin's doubles, who can often be found near Red Square, sorted things out with their fists. In addition, recently another Stalin double has been working for tourists near GUM.…
“Just six years ago, President Vladimir Putin visited the Polish port of Gdansk, the birthplace of the Solidarity movement that overthrew Soviet rule, and reassured his Eastern European neighbors of Russia's exceptionally friendly intentions,” writes Los Angeles Times columnist Carol J. Williams. In that…
A church service was held on Prokhorovsky Field in the Belgorod Region with the “Our Lady of Sovereign” icon, which depicts Joseph Stalin surrounded by Soviet marshals. As Alexander Prokhanov’s newspaper “Zavtra” reported, the service was performed by the Athonite hieromonk Athenogenes. The icon was made by order of the Izborsk Club, whose chairman is Prokhanov. “Icon “Our Lady of Sovereign”...