21 April has been proclaimed as the Day of Intellectuals or the Day of Alternative (anti-totalitarian) consciousness. This day falls between 20 April (Hitler's birthday) and 22 April (Lenin's birthday). The author of the idea is the linguist and philosopher Mikhail Epstein mikhail-epsteinЭтот день стоит в промежутке между двумя датами, которые торжественно ( Read more... )

What is a Soviet person? The most precise answer has been given by criminal prisoners: a slave of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union). They meant the usual slavery, which was in camps and collective farms. However, Bolsheviks created also a new phenomenon - ideological slavery. The most surprising feature of the Soviet person was that he ( Read more... )

The documentary film THE SOVIET STORY about crimes of communism and Soviet-German collaboration before 1941. This version is with Russian voice-over. More information about this film and how to buy it in your native language see here. Документальный фильм о преступлениях советского режима и его сотрудничестве с нацизмом. Версия с русским закадровым ( Read more... )

The Russian oppositional movement "Solidarity" has carried out a symbolic action at the metro station Kurskaya in Moscow: released a bunch of balloons with a new version of the Soviet anthem. Recently the Moscow authorities restored at this station an inscription from the Soviet anthem (the version of 1944), which praises Lenin and Stalin. The ( Read more... )

At the Kurskya metro station in Moscow the authorities have restored the inscription with the phrase from Stalin’s anthem.По поводу восстановления строчки из сталинского гимна («Нас вырастил Сталин на верность народу, на труд и на подвиги нас вдохновил») на станции метро «Курская-кольцевая», думаю, что у авторов этого почина есть большой фронт ( Read more... )

The newspaper "Izvestia" has published reminiscences of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, a girl-friend of Lenin's wife. In 1904, while talking with Ariadna, Lenin promised to hang her on lamp post.

"Известия" 29.05.2009


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