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      Photo: clipping from the newspaper “Pravda” №252 dated 12 September 1938.   Comrade A. I. Ugarov, who welcomed in September 1938, the new Communist propagandists, after little more than a month – 20 October 1938 – he was arrested “on charges of participating in a counterrevolutionary terrorist …

Successful life for ordinary Soviet man was reduced to sacramental formula “dacha, a wheelbarrow and a dog”. The implication was that came to the success of the Builder of communism should have a dacha, a car and apartment. The representatives of the Soviet nomenklatura with this triad, the situation was …

In the mid-1920s, when Stalin made the first steps to consolidate power, neither the Union nor Russia has ever had a well-established modern system of demographic statistics. However, at this time already gathered and processed, albeit not universally, fairly rich information about all of the main demographic processes, in 1926, …

The most important of the arts for the Bolsheviks was the movie. The sacramental phrase was uttered by Lenin in 1922, when the films were silent, but with the advent of sound, and the propaganda value of cinema for ideological education of the masses has only increased. This was the …

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has put in a series of leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler, Generalissimo of the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin and the “Islamic state” (ISIS, a terrorist group banned in Russia), speaking to the US Congress on 2 April. It is reported by RIA Novosti. …

This car was the first armored car in the USSR. He was feared, respected and always gave way. It’s not about Stalin, but his car ZIS-115. The first armored sedan, released in the USSR. His fate is as interesting as the structure of the machine. By a strange coincidence, after …

Everything was attention to detail.. The leaders at all times paid special attention to Executive cars. One of the most mysterious cars can rightly be considered the one which went to Stalin. Today, some historians call the car of the leader of the “King car.” And I must admit, this …

The remains of the bust brought to the memorial to Holodomor victims. The remains of the bust brought to the memorial to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, where at 16 o’clock held a meeting-Requiem and laying flowers to the Day of memory of victims of Holodomor in Ukraine. …

The Network has raised a new “brand” for a laugh. In Russia started selling t-shirts with pictures of Joseph Stalin and the inscription “Love Russia”. About this on his page in Facebook wrote journalist Alexander of Tver. “Oh, bottom punched. In Russia started selling shirts with Stalin”, – has signed …

Experts have conducted an extensive survey and shared the results. About the persecution and murder of Soviet citizens for political reasons in 30-40 years of XX century know three quarters of Russians (75%), however, the level of awareness depends on education and age of respondents. It is reported by the …