Tag Archives: Stalin

If you blinked, you’d have missed it – a brief cameo appearance by Donald Trump speaking to child actor Macaulay Culkin in the 1992 film ‘Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’. The now notorious scene takes place inside the iconic Plaza Hotel where Trump tells Culkin, playing the role of …

“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything,” says the quote, which Stalin may or may not have uttered, that opened a five-tweet thread posted by Rasmussen on Sunday. The thread was about the so-called ‘Pence Card’ notion, that Vice President Mike Pence can …

Even during the life and rule of Joseph Stalin, few in the US would have appealed to the Soviet ruler to save their country. Yet, when “Stalin” and “Save the USA” trended alongside each other on Friday, people checking their Twitter feeds would be forgiven for thinking that Americans had …

“Of slogans like “For the Motherland! For Stalin!” we did not have” The horror and meanness of the great Patriotic war through the eyes of a soldier In Day of memory and grief we publish fragments of war memories of Michael Sukneva “Notes of the commander of the penal battalion”. …

Today a priest seized the monastery and put under the protection of so-called “Cossacks”. The news is strange, everywhere write about it; I’m also interested. Found the video where the Abbot explains who and why he is fighting in the ROC. He stands in front of the camera in the …

So, friends — today will be a very interesting post about how actually looked like Moscow under Stalin. In the comments to my yesterday’s post about what a poor legacy left after Stalin, some readers wrote comments like “well, it’s a province! But Moscow was sucking money from the regions …

Today is a very auspicious day — the day of death of the executioner of the peoples of Stalin, who is personally involved in the genocides and wars of the XX century and the tragedy of the Russian people — when the surviving executioners’re trying to trample the memory of …

The times did not choose “A great scientist, a genius, the pride of Russian science, academician Vavilov died — it died!!! Died like a dog in the Saratov prison!!!” — shouted the scientific community of the Soviet geneticist Vladimir Efroimson   Exactly 70 years ago, on 26 January 1943 died …

Last weekend in Moscow hosted the international scientific conference “Stalin-140”, organized by the Moscow Committee of the CPSU-EIF with the support of the Central Committee of the RKRP-CPSU. For the hypnotic mantras of acronyms hides a good job of specific people who were able to collect a decent list of …

Instead of racing for the sport records we need to win where it really matters: the economy, healthcare, education, science. 2019 the year ended for the Russian sports complete embarrassment. The decision to exclude Russia from all major sports, including the Olympic games and world Championships, for a period of …