The Nation on MSN11d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
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Putin hails Soviet army for ending 'total evil' of Auschwitz
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th ...
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
The Irish Times7d
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
The extent of the crimes against humanity committed by the entity known as the Soviet Union will never be known. Designated enemies were not only persecuted, imprisoned and murdered, but expunged ...
The National Interest10d
Former Soviet Union
The Latvian government demolished a Cold War-era monument celebrating the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War on Thursday—leading to celebrations by many Latvians who ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN5d
The Liberation of Auschwitz—Where More Than One Million Jews Were Killed—Took Place on This Day in 1945
When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...
RTE Online7d
A history of Auschwitz-Birkenau 80 years on from liberation
With the world marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops on 27 January here is its history, ...
New Republic22d
The 2000s and the End of American Optimism
Over 35 years ago now, as the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of collapse and President George H.W. Bush worked to secure a peaceful conclusion to the Cold War, the political scientist Francis ...