Soviet Union

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In memoriam

13.February 2026. Milan Milošević

The deceased historian and Soviet dissident Roy Medvedev: Judge of the Great Terror and Stalinism

He considered his life's work to be the book "On the Court of History: The Genesis and Consequences of Stalinism", about the Great Terror in the USSR. Together with the physicists and dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Valentin Turchin, he published an open letter to the Soviet leaders in 1970 about the need to democratize the Soviet system. He criticized the coup against Gorbachev in 1991, but also the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin

The World

19.September 2023 AE

Continuation of the war in the Caucasus: Azerbaijan shelled Nagorno-Karabakh

Three years after the end of the previous military conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region is once again under a state of war. And this time, there is a fear of the spread of local conflict

The World

09.May 2023. I.Đ.

The Shortest Victory Parade in Moscow: The World at a Turning Point

Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out that a number of Western countries want to stifle sovereign centers of development, with the aim of undoing the results of the Second World War, "to definitely break the system of global security and international law".

The war in Ukraine

03.May 2022. S.Ć.

Removal of Soviet monuments: First, the figure of a Russian soldier lost his head

In Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania... Monuments bearing witness to the historical periods when the Soviets were in those countries are being dismantled in a hurry. The monument to Russian-Ukrainian friendship no longer makes any sense - said the author of one of the monuments, watching his work being demolished