En mars 1949, environ cent mille gens de la population civile ont été deportés de l'Estonie, la Lettonie et la Lituanie à la Sibérie et à des régions éloignées du Nord par le pouvoir soviétique.

Оригинал взят у suomilarissa в День памяти жертв депортаций и коммунистического геноцида Прибалтики.
В СССР тотальной депортации были подвергнуты десять народов: ( Read more... )

Отрывок из книги Бориса Немцова «Исповедь бунтаря»

This is an extract from an autobiography of the outstanding Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered last week. From this text, you will learn about his life in the Soviet Union and afterwards. I have provided a list of difficult Russian words with explanations.


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A song from the Soviet film Tiger Girl (1954). The film, which became hugely popular, is about a cleaner girl, working in a circus, who becomes a tiger tamer. Her sweetheart also comes to work in the circus as a "flying motocyclist". Scary acts with tigers and motocycle stunts! Also a great story of love. The actress, Ludmila Kasatkina, for whom it ( Read more... )

On 26 November 2010 the Russian State Duma adopted a resolution "On the Katyn tragedy and its victims" condemning Stalin and his regime of murdering Polish officers in Katyn. However, many communists and nationalists in Russia still claim that Polish officers were killed by Nazis. The documents posted below prove once again that it were Soviets, ( Read more... )

A satirical song about Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has been fired from his post by Dmitry Medvedev. The melody and some of the lyrics have been taken from the song "Farewell, Moscow" (below), which was first performed at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980.

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( До свиданья, Москва! Farewell, Moscow )

30 years ago died the great singer, actor and poet Vladimir Vysotsky. It happened in the middle of the Olympic games and thousands of Moscovites left the Olympics stadiums to attend the funeral, even though information of Vysotsky's death was suppressed - small announcements appeared in only two newspapers. The Soviet television did not film the ( Read more... )

The final scene of the well-known Soviet film Assa starring Victor Tsoi.

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Эпилог фильма Сергея Соловьева «Асса» (1987). Музыкант, играющий в ресторанном оркестре, приводит на освободившееся место своего приятеля. Его роль исполняет знаменитый рок-музыкант Виктор Цой.

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The famous dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who lives in Cambridge (England), compares the present opposition movement in Russia with opposition in the Soviet Union and in Poland. He says that in Poland it was easier to organise opposition, because there it based on a national movement. In Russia people have forgotten mutual trust and work ethics. ( Read more... )

Twenty years ago, in May 1990, the first Congress of People's Deputies of Russia took place. This first Russian parliament of the modern times created the post of the President and became a cradle of a multiparty system. In the video (see the link at the bottom of the page) several deputies of 1990-93 speak about the role of the Congress and ( Read more... )

Lyudmila Alexeyeva has written how people in Moscow celebrated the Victory Day 65 years ago.Завтра 9 мая. 65-й раз отмечаю этот день. Сейчас это для меня самый главный праздник. И каждый раз вспоминается, как это было в 1945 году. Есть такие дни в жизни, которые не забываются, как долго ни живи ( Read more... )