"The Marxist belief has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: It's like blaming Jesus Christ for the inquisition in Spain." The USSR under Stalin, as Benn states, was far removed f...
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Galina Dzhugashvili, a granddaughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who challenged widely accepted accounts of her father's internment at a Nazi prison camp, has died in Moscow, a hospital officia...
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Historians announced a project Wednesday to increase understanding of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's rule and help Russians come to terms with one of the grimmest chapters of their past.The project...
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An ad campaign featuring billboards and commercials with images of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin exhorting people to pay their bills was pulled on Monday after protests from rights groups and na...
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Russian Orthodox priests consecrated a wooden cross Wednesday at a site south of Moscow where firing squads executed thousands of people 70 years ago at the height of Josef Stalin's political purge...
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President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday against political ideas that are "placed above basic values" as he for the first time joined public commemorations on the 70th anniversary of mass killings o...
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President Vladimir Putin said Thursday no one should try to make Russia feel guilty about the Great Purge of 1937, saying it may have been one of the most notorious episodes of the Stalin era but "...
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Pete Seeger has the Joe Stalin blues.Decades after drifting away from the Communist Party, the 88-year-old banjo-picker has written a song about the Soviet leader that's as scathing as any tune in ...
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Wearing fireproof coveralls, Ilya Dmitriyev plods past a smelter that belches smoke and gushes molten metal, the chief product of this gritty patch of Arctic tundra where the air tastes of sulfur a...
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Moscow (dpa) - Former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is back in
fashion in Russia as the Kremlin condones history textbooks that
honour the Soviet leader (1878-1953) as renov...
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Now in their 70s and 80s, children of the victims of Josef Stalin's political repressions remembered one of the darkest pages of Russia's history at a ceremony Wednesday in central Moscow.Several h...
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