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Houses filled with the dead were commonplace in Ukraine in 1932 and 33. Those who collected the corpses knew where to stop if they saw ravens nearby. And sometimes the emaciated living were carted away with the deceased.

<p>Liberal Russians reflect on Stalin's death 69 years later and observe parallels with Putin's approach to internal dissent. </p>

Politics: Central to the appeal of populism is the idea of the effective strongman. Recent events are showing us the fumbling strongman

Vladimir Putin and others insist on our understanding the rape of Ukraine in a certain context. The context consists of components including the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe, and Putins high anxiety. If anyone has supplied the context from Ukraines perspective, I missed it. I doubt that its ancient history in Ukraine. Ukraines subjugation by the the Soviet Union was an unhappy experience.

Despite the belligerent idiocy of the US talking head class, nothing justifies Putin's armed assault on Ukraine

There are still those who play down or make light of the slaughter that took place in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Indeed organisations such as the CPB’s Young Communist League, George Galloway’s Workers Party and the CPGB (Marxist-Leninist) boast of a recent growth of recruits. Jack Conrad looks at the Soviet Union as a mode of mortality

A hundred years ago, on November 7 (October 25 according to the Russian calendar), 1917, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian government and established a communist dictatorship. The world has never been the same since. Of all the legacies left in the revolution’s wake, the worst is a wrecked Russia. Seventy years of communism devastated the country. The Soviets did modernize things, but at what a price?

The Tory party chairman’s hard-hitting truths about the threat we face must be translated into action

What we are seeing is that the totalitarian system cannot solve the very problems which it has itself created. Indeed, in some cases it can only intensify them. LONDON: The regime that rules China is not an authoritarian regime, as is usually said: it is totalitarian. That difference is crucial. Historian Robert

31 January 2022 - Among the things the tsars, the Bolsheviks, and Vladimir Putin have in common is antipathy to the notion of an independent Ukraine. Until it declared its independence in 1991, so precipitating the end of the Soviet empire, most of Ukraine and its rich farmland had been a Russian possession for three centuries.