What national policy was like in the USSR

The story of a Stalin-era shady businessman

How much time for Ukrainians to get over the post-genocide syndrome?

American historian about propaganda and political manipulations as triggers of genocides in the 20th century

Former UPA fighter shares his story of struggle against the Nazis and NKVD, GULAGs and return to Ukraine

The beginning and end of World War II brought about political collusions that greatly discredited the leaders of Western democracies

Stalin’s moves to establish communist governments in Central and Eastern Europe relied largely on local elements and tools already tested in the USSR

The myths of the “Great Patriotic War” are a massive misrepresentation of history and a tricky political trap for Ukrainians who are forbidden from recovering their own history and claiming recognition of their suffering

On 25 June 2013, George Orwell (1903–1950) would turn 110. He appears to have been the real prophet of totalitarianism, and far and away the most insightful writer in the West who got the very essence of the tragedy of Eastern Europe.

Anticommunist socialist George Orwell and his gift to Ukrainians

The 500-rouble Russian bill features a very nice and disdainful picture that shows the state’s heightened interest in the spiritual dimension of Russia’s life and history

The first quarter of this year has some remarkable dates. The way people, the media and politicians treat them is an interesting indicator of a society’s moral and political state.

For a large part of the Ukrainian population, Stalin’s “liberation from the Germans” was a mirror image of Hitler’s “liberation of Ukraine from the Bolsheviks” in 1941

Philippe de Lara: “Totalitarian regimes are dead, but they continue to exert a strong influence on many countries and their cultures”

Stalin used penal battalions in the Red Army as an instrument of repression

Stanford University Professor Norman M. Naimark speaks about various interpretations of genocide and current court practice

Contrary to ephemeral statements by the Kremlin about “de-Stalinization,” the Russian propaganda machine is actively establishing historical myths first produced under Stalin