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 ...

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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Soviet Union: Rural Life, Faith, and Tradition

The film explores the complexities of life in the Soviet Union during the post-Stalin era, highlighting the contrast between the technological advancements and the persistent influence of traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...