Welcome to the real Soviet Union – primitive, brutal and racist

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

Meet Spiridon Putin: Russian President Vladimir Putin's Commie Grandpa Was A Chef To Rasputin, Lenin, & Stalin - Did You Know?

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the ...
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Life in a formerly closed Russian military city

This video offers a fascinating personal account of life in a formerly closed Soviet city during the early 1990s, a time when ...

Exit Stalin — reforms and repression in the postwar, pre-collapse USSR

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...
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'City Of The Sun': How A Christian Metropolis Was Planned In Soviet Siberia

At a meeting in Soviet Russia's Krasnoyarsk territory in 1930, residents of Solona Village listened to state functionaries espousing what they claimed were the advantages of collective farms. No one ...

Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...