Tag: Stalin
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The fourth partition of Poland: 84th anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
It has been 84 years since the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union was signed in Moscow. Dr. Paweł Kosiński, a historian from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), recalls that with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Hitler and Stalin aimed to dismantle the Second Polish Republic. On Aug. 23, 1939, the document was signed…
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Putin: A prisoner of his own myths?
Stalin stopped celebrating May 9 as the end of the war three years after the end of the war. It was Brezhnev who reinstated a great military parade at the Red Square on the 20th anniversary of the war and made it a holiday that year, but it was only Putin’s government that made it…
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Putin again whitewashes the Stalinist era
19 police officers injured and at least 24 arrested in major incident that Germany’s AfD blames on migrants and Antifa ;elements