Amid the tense atmosphere of the late 1930s, Stalin unleashed the Great Purge — a sweeping campaign of political repression ...

Naturally, Putin’s military purge brings to mind another notable military purge — when Josef Stalin discharged approximately 35,000 army leaders from the ranks and ordered tens of thousands of ...

In The Great Purge of 1937, dictator Joseph Stalin eliminated dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. We are reliving this now. Eliminating the ...

.MOSCOW (AP) – President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday against political ideas that are “placed above basic values” as he for the first time joined public commemorations on the 70th anniversary of ...

Be alert Recently, I ran across the following information which brought to mind the old saying, “history repeats itself.” “Joseph Stalin was head of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. He expected to ...

What was behind the new purge? Last week the Soviet Government tripled the price of rationed food. (Little food in Russia is unrationed.) Black bread went up from 3.8¢ to 12.9¢* a pound, white ...

Maybe even more. And after the Great Purge, I can truthfully report that nothing has changed. In the place of the mean-spirited pages I blocked, two more seemed to emerge from the mud.

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, his adaptation of Georgy Demidov’s eponymous novel, is set in the Soviet Union in 1937 during Stalin’s Great Purge and tells the story ...