The article focuses on the "Name of Russia," a popularity contest organized by the Russian television (TV) station Rossiya in 2008 to identify the most important figure in history of the federation. Among the final 50 candidates were Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and first Soviet president Boris...
BothRussians and Ukrainians claim ownershipof Chicken Kyiv, something that found new attention when George H.W. Bush gave his so-called "Chicken Kyiv Speech" in 1991. The talk, delivered from Kyiv, which was part of the Soviet Union at the time, indicated Bush and the United Statesdid not...
What did Leon Trotsky think of socialism? What was Leon Trotsky's job? What province was Leon Trotsky from? What happened between Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, and Vladimir Lenin? What did Karl Marx do in the Russian Revolution? What do Russians think about Leon Trotsky? What did Vladimir Le...
And I've decided to do that because of this comment of yours: we lost almost 30 million people recently - in part, because we were defending your ass. Who is "we"? Because if you mean RuSSians then where did you get those "30 million"?
I think that it is necessary to go further back, to the year 1944, at a time when Poland, which until then found itself squeezed between Germans and Russians, saw imposed upon it a way of life still with us today. Let us review what happened in June of 1944. Mikolajczyk, the Prime ...
So let’s see, I gather you define “pride” as lying to Russians about the fact that Stalin killed millions of Russians. Or that Russia helped start WWII by invading Poland in 1939. Does the fact that the Germans teach the truth about the Nazis to their schoolchildren mean they don’t...
July 16: About 600,000 Russians are trapped when the Nazi German army encircles the Soviet city of Smolensk. July 21: The Luftwaffe suffers heavy losses in a bombing raid on Moscow. July 22: With their supply lines stretched to the breaking point, Nazi German troops are forced to stop the...
of the world’s greatest literature and booming in population and helping to feed Europe. Then it leapt into a revolution unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, a hundred years afterward, we still don’t know quite what to make of that huge event. The Russians themselves aren’t too...
he was generalizing two unique events. Modern historians do the same when they write of the English, French, Russian and Chineserevolutions.But this process may work in a converse direction. The economist who, by a scientific analysis of existing economic conditions, predicts an approaching boom ...
The Russians have long venerated the Mother of Jesus. One of religious and nationalistic symbols for Russians isOur Lady of Kazan, which rests in the Cathedral in St. Petersburg. This image is so important to the Russians that even wicked Stalin had it paraded around the walls of Leningrad...