For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 constituent states of the Communist empire, Russia was always the pre-eminent ...

In January 2017, the CIA released a large number of newly-declassified documents about information collected on the Soviet Union. One of those documents included two pages of Russian jokes about the ...

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During the Soviet era, the Holocaust was concealed behind the phrase "peaceful Soviet citizens" to erase the identity of the ...

MINSK, 20 November (BelTA) - Russia will continue to seek international recognition and condemnation of the genocide of the Soviet people; the crimes of the Nazis have no statute of limitations, ...

“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...

Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place ...

Israel’s Holocaust Museum has accused Russia of Holocaust distortion over its decision to establish a new annual memorial day to commemorate the Nazi “Genocide of the Soviet People” while omitting any ...