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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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6 Jul 1936 appeared the slogan “Thanks to comrade Stalin for our happy childhood”. We have decided to recall, in consequence of which appeared the slogan, and here, a photo of Stalin with a little girl Gels Marquis. Photo of the “Friend of children”; in the picture of the …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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