Josef Stalin’s grandson has lost a bizarre legal case he hoped would rehabilitate the Soviet dictator’s murderous reputation posthumously, the Daily Telegraph reports.
In a case as surreal as it was absurd, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, Stalin’s grandson, had sued Novaya Gazeta, a liberal newspaper, for printing an article that referred to Stalin as a “bloodthirsty cannibal”.
Dzhugashvili, who lives in Georgia and never appeared at the trial himself, alleged the article had offended his late relative’s honour and …

I have read tons of books about the history of the 20th century. It’s the century of world wars, the century of brutal and murderous regimes, the century of the Cold War, the century of freedom fight, and the century of victories. It’s the century that interests me the most in the entire history.
It’s very unfortunate to tens of millions of people that the 20th century was the century of brutal and murderous regimes. Stalin’s …

Today 65 years ago the Soviet Union committed one of its worst war crimes against the Republic of Estonia by launching a massive bombing attack against Tallinn. One third of the capital and close to half of homes were destroyed.
The aerial attack began at 7:45 in the evening of 9th of March and the first wave lasted until 9:15pm. In the morning of 10th of March at 1:00am the second wave started and about 280 …