Josef Stalin’s Daughter Dies in Wisconsin at Age 85 By Scott Bauer The Associated Press Published: November 30, 2011 (Issue # 1685) MADISON, Wisconsin — Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s daughter, whose defection to the West during the Cold War embarrassed the ruling communists and made her a best-selling author, has died. She was 85. Lana [...]
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December 1, 2011
November 29, 2011
November 29, 2011
Stalin’s Daughter Dies In U.S.
The only daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has died in the United States. Officials in the state of Wisconsin said Lana Peters died of colon cancer on November 22, at the age of 85. Born Svetlana Stalina, she defected to the United States in 1967, during the Cold War, and denounced her father and [...]
November 28, 2011
Vasily Alekseyev: The Passing Of A Soviet Weightlifting Icon
The passing away on November 25 of Vasily Alekseyev, a legendary figure in competitive weightlifting, marks yet another poignant closure for the former Soviet Union. Alekseyev, who reportedly died of heart failure at the age of 69 in a Munich clinic, epitomized the achievements as well as the failures of a rigid system designed to [...]
November 24, 2011
A design for life
A design for life A new book looks back at the Soviet race for design, from Zaporozhets cars to Belomorkanal cigarettes. By Max Seddon The St. Petersburg Times Published: November 23, 2011 (Issue # 1684) MADE IN RUSSIA The book looks with a degree of nostalgia at Soviet objects now gone. There’s an old Soviet [...]
November 17, 2011
WWII tank recovered from riverbed (VIDEO)
A Soviet KV-1 tank which sank in the Neva River near Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) during World War II has been successfully recovered from the bottom of the river in the Kirov district of northwestern Russia’s Leningrad Region. “Despite the stormy weather and the depth exceeding 15 meters at this place, the operation for the [...]
November 17, 2011
From the archive, 17 November 1979: Art historian who spied for the Soviet Union
In 1972 a humble naval lieutenant in a financial jam sold some humble naval secrets to the Russians. The judge at his trial spoke of a “monstrous betrayal” and sentenced him to 21 years. That, amid the myriad issues of the Blunt affair, is a point of reference worth recalling. The sub-lieutenant traded a few [...]
November 11, 2011
Brent Scowcroft on Russia: I think the “reset” in a sense, was a ruse…
Brent Scowcroft, adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush: The Soviet Union went through a period of aging or unhealthy leadership, and Gorbachev brought the power to stimulate the system. Exactly how to promote, we do not know, and I’m not sure what he knew. But what he did in fact – he asks the [...]
November 6, 2011
Russia: Oldies But Goodies! 1941 Soviet Military Parade…
Here is a video from 1941! Tomorrow on November 7th, 2011. There will be a parade equivalent to the one shown in the video but in the now – 2011… So this Monday will see the remake of the historic military parade on Moscow’s Red Square on November 7, 1941, when the then Soviet troops [...]
October 28, 2011
Stalin’s grandson files defamation suit against Russian TV host
Joseph Stalin’s grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Channel One television host Vladimir Pozner, who maintains that Stalin authorized the killing of thousands of Polish POWs in the 1940 Katyn massacre, Dzhugashvili’s lawyer said on Friday. During his TV show broadcast on October 24, Pozner said that “several thousand innocent Polish officers [...]
October 26, 2011
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October 20, 2011
Medvedev blasts anti-Caucasus sentiment
Russians who demand an end to subsidies to Russia’s North Caucasus regions are either not very smart or provocateurs, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “Our society has different opinions on the same things. One is ‘Stop feeding the Caucasus.’ What comes out of that? The consequences of these slogans are easy to predict,” [...]
October 14, 2011
Historama, October 13
Soviet troops freeing Riga from Nazis and the arrest of a leading intellectual are remembered in tonight’s Historama. Soviet Union army pushes Nazis out of Baltic countries On this day in 1944, the Soviet army liberated Riga from fascist occupation. The capital of Latvia severely suffered from the Nazis. In total, over 300,000 civilians were [...]