Stalin to be celebrated as a war hero for 65th anniversary of Nazi defeat – Times Online

Posted by Matt in February 19th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, 65th Anniversary, Celebration, Decades, hitler, Information Booths, Moscow City, Nazi Defeat, Nazi Germany, Opposition Parties, Proposal, Rights Groups, Second World War, Soviet Dictator, Soviet Victory, Stalin, Tyrant, War Hero, War Posters

Stalin is to make a comeback on the streets of Moscow for the first time in decades in a celebration of the Soviet victory over Hitler in the Second World War.
Posters and information booths devoted to the Soviet dictator are to go up across the capital under a proposal by Moscow City Council to mark [...]

Happy Birthday, Joe: Russia’s Rehabilitation of Stalin – TIME

Posted by Matt in December 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Favorites, Russia, Anniversary, Happy Birthday, Leadership Qualities, Personal Attributes, Popularity, Purges, Regime, Respondents, Russia, Russians, Soviet Citizens, Stalin, Starvation, Summary Executions

What may be more surreal, however, is the resurgent popularity that Stalin is enjoying at the moment in Russia. Just in time for the 130th anniversary of his birth on Dec. 21, the state-run polling agency VTsIOM released a survey showing that despite the millions of Soviet citizens who fell victim to purges, starvation and [...]

Russia continues to modernize its nuclear triad | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire

Posted by Matt in November 18th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Nuclear, Russia, Combat Duty, Mainstay, Missile Forces, Missile Systems, Missiles, Mobile Missile, Moscow Russia, Newswire, Nuclear Triad, Ria Novosti Russia, Russian News, Silo, Ss, Stalin, Strategic Missile, Top News, Topol, Topol-M

MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (SMF), the land-based component of the nuclear triad, will put on combat duty a second regiment equipped with Topol-M mobile missile systems by the end of 2009.
Topol-M (SS-27 Stalin) missiles are the mainstay of the ground-based component of Russia’s nuclear triad. As of the beginning [...]

Russia and Poland trade insults on 70th anniversary of World War Two – Telegraph

Posted by Matt in September 1st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, 70th Anniversary, Accusations, Atrocity, Broadcasters, Foreign Minister, German Agent, Invasion Of The Soviet Union, Jozef Beck, Katyn Massacre, Polish City, Pows, Propaganda Campaign, Russian Media, Russian Propaganda, Secret Police, Stalin, Trade Insults, Warsaw, World Leaders, World War Two

As world leaders gather in the Polish city of Gdansk today to commemorate the first shots of the conflict, Poles are fuming over what they perceive as an insulting Russian propaganda campaign targeting their nation.
In the days leading up to anniversary, Russian media has aired a string of accusations against Poland, claiming that Warsaw intended [...]

The Death of Litvinenko – Two Years Later and What Have We Learned?

Posted by Matt in December 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, Alexander, Broccoli, Chase, Daniel Craig, Europeans, Jfk, Mastermind, putin, Reagan, Russians, South American Dictators, Stalin

Could the death of Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko two years ago be a warning from the grave?
Oh heck, let me cut to the chase – Putin is more deadly than Stalin, more strategic than Reagan, and more charismatic than JFK (at least to Russians, Europeans and a few South American dictators). There, I’ve said it. [...]

Hidden Travels of the Atomic Bomb

Posted by Matt in December 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, Proliferation, algeria, Atom Bomb, Atomic Bomb, China China, Exact Replica, Iran, Israel, Israel Israel, Libya, Manhattan Project, Mr Reed, Nagasaki, North-Korea, Pakistan, Russian Spies, Slideshow, South Africa, Stalin, Stillman, Travels, United States

Here are some of paths of the atomic bomb:
America => Russia => China
China => Algeria
China => Pakistan
China => North Korea
Pakistan => Libya
Pakistan => Iran
France => Israel
Israel => South Africa
All paths stem from the United States, directly or indirectly. One began with Russian spies that deeply penetrated the Manhattan Project. Stalin was so enamored of the [...]

Stalin’s Tipping Point

Posted by Matt in September 1st, 2007 | no comment

Published in Russia, Battle_for_Moscow, hitler, Russia, Stalin

The battle for Moscowâ€”the biggest, bloodiest clash in human historyâ€”helped turn the tide against Hitler. But the Soviet leader came closer than most realize to defeat.
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Stalin’s purge 1937 remembered in Russia

Posted by Matt in July 25th, 2007 | no comment

Published in Russia, Russia, Stalin

MOSCOW –
Now in their 70s and 80s, children of the victims of Josef Stalin’s political repressions remembered one of the darkest pages of Russia’s history at a ceremony Wednesday in central Moscow.
Several hundred people laid flowers and lit candles to honor the victims of the Great Purge of 1937, when millions were labeled “enemies of [...]