Venezuela’s ‘anti-Semitic’ leader admits Jewish ancestry
Nicolas Maduro defends Caracas’s policies toward Israel, says his grandparents were Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism
View ArticlePutin: First Soviet government was mostly Jewish
Speaking at Moscow’s Jewish Museum, Russian president says politicians ‘were guided by false ideological considerations’
View ArticlePolish author reopens minefield of who killed Jedwabne’s Jews
In an English translation of her book ‘The Crime and the Silence,’ journalist Anna Bikont sheds more light on the WWII massacre of hundreds of Jews in occupied Poland
View ArticleUkrainians turn famed Lenin statue into Darth Vader
The ‘Dark Lord’ is an oddly prominent figure in local politics
View ArticleRussia opens new Stalin museums, grapples with his legacy
Director at one site stresses that while Communist dictator was no angel, he did look after the safety of his citizens
View ArticleFrom bullet holes to Lenin’s head: Berlin lays bare its history
New exhibition features 100 rescued statues and monuments telling city’s story spanning royal rule, Nazism, Cold War
View ArticleAuthor opens the Pandora’s box of Russia’s curious autonomous Jewish ghost town
While Chaim Weitzman and Nahum Sokolow were in Britain campaigning for a Zionist state, the Bolsheviks were busy implementing their own vision -- in the USSR The post Author opens the Pandora’s box of...
View ArticleRed faces as Russia’s Kalashnikov monument shows Nazi gun
Erroneous drawing on statue was of an StG44 -- for Sturmgewehr (Storm Rifle), a name reputedly conferred by Hitler himself The post Red faces as Russia’s Kalashnikov monument shows Nazi gun appeared...
View ArticleRussian TV series claims Jewish Trotsky masterminded bloody 1917 revolution
Leaving historians unsure whether show is anti-Semitic or simply sensationalist, upcoming drama accuses Marxist thinker of murdering tsar's family The post Russian TV series claims Jewish Trotsky...
View ArticleRussia struggles with legacy of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution
Many now see the events that led to the establishment of the Soviet Union as coming at too great a price for the nation
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