Ever wondered how would Soviet Union look like today, if it hadn’t collapsed in 1991? Here’s your answer: according to Soviet propaganda in 1959, people would have had free food and cars, spa on Mars, no alcohol, extreme honesty and no crime whatsoever.
Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat (Evening News) found a copy of Soviet newspaper called Komsomolskaya Pravda from the last day of 1959, but dated 1st January, 2010. It was a propaganda statement of how the …

European Union’s new foreign affairs chief, Baroness Ashton of Upholland was forced to deny yesterday taking funds from the Soviet Union during her days as treasurer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), The Times reports.
Lady Ashton was challenged to deny that she had contact with Russian sources while she was in charge of CND’s accounts at the height of the Cold War.
Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party leader, raised the matter on the floor …

Latvia’s former President and the country’s candidate for European Union’s first President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, said that the appointment is being conducted with Soviet-style secrecy and contempt for the public, the Daily Telegraph reports.
71-year-old Vike-Freiberga attacked the EU for operating in “darkness and behind closed doors”.
“The European Union should stop working like the former Soviet Union,” she said.
She is the only person to have openly declared herself as in the running to become EU President, a …

20 years ago today I was 10 years old. And frankly, I don’t remember anything from the day the Berlin Wall started to come down and the Iron Curtain was finally lifted. However, I do remember fragments of my trip to East Germany a few months before 9th November, 1989, the date when Europe changed forever.
I think it was either July or August when my parents took me and my brother, then 5, to our …

One of the first communist terrorists and the architect of the evil empire of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov really) died from syphilis, caught from a Parisian prostitute, and not from a stroke, as it has been believed, a new research says.
Helen Rappaport, an acclaimed historian and author, said that books, papers and journals charting Lenin’s last years show that he contracted the sexually transmitted disease and that it ultimately claimed his life, the …

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 …

The first official history of MI5, published this morning, reveals the extent to which the security service suspected leftwingers during the Cold War and believed that three Labour MPs were Soviet bloc agents, the Guardian reports.
The MPs named in the history, written by the historian Christopher Andrew, are John Stonehouse, who became postmaster general in Harold Wilson’s government, Bernard Floud and Will Owen. The three were “outed” by a Czech defector, but there is no …

Joseph Stalin’s grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvili sued a Russian newspaper for libel because the paper reported that the infamous Soviet tyrant and dictator had ordered murders of Soviet citizens.
Dzhugashvili, is seeking 9.5 million roubles (£184,000) from the Novaya Gazeta newspaper and 500,000 roubles from the author of an article published last April claiming Stalin personally signed politburo death orders.
Leonid Zhura, a convinced Stalinist who is representing Dzhugashvili in court, said that the article — based on …

Today, nations all over Europe and the world commemorate the beginning of the Second World War, which was initiated by the two evil powers who both wanted to rule the world. Communist Soviet Union and nazi Germany had previously agreed on terms of nonaggression and divided Europe between them, and on 1st September, 1939, Germany’s leader Adolf Hitler started to take what his newly found friend, Soviet murderous dictator Joseph Stalin had promised.
Germany had already …

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 …

The Soviet Union plotted to invade Manchester during the height of the Cold War, the Daily Telegraph reports.
A map drawn up by Soviet generals shows that the military had charted an armoured invasion of the city, for distribution to frontline commanders. The plans would be put into action if relations between the UK and the USSR deteriorated further.
The maps ignored one-way streets and rush hour jams, marking the lines of an assault in bold orange. …

70 years ago today, the two evils of the world – communist Soviet Union and nazi Germany signed a pact that made them allies, divided Europe between the two powers at the expense of other European nations, and effectively was the main reason for the World War II.
On 23rd August, 1939, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyatcheslav Molotov, and his German counterpart Joachim von Ribbentrop signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the agreement of non-aggression between the two countries …

Today 65 years ago, on 1st August, 1994, in Poland, Warsaw Uprising – struggle to liberate Warsaw from nazi German occupation – begain. The bloody uprising lasted for 63 days, until the Polish army was forced to surrender on 2nd October, 1944.
Warsaw Uprising was a struggle by Polish Home Army – Polish Underground at the days of occupation – to liberate the capital from nazis. It was intended to last only for a few days …

Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) have finally equated stalinism and nazism, saying that the Soviet Union was as guilty of Second World War as nazi Germany, and that both stalinism and nazism brought about crimes against humanity and genocide.
The organisation based their conclusion on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939 which they said was the precursor to the conflagration, the Daily Mail reports. The pact, named after the Soviet and Nazi foreign ministers …

Today 68 years ago, the Soviet Union committed an appalling crime against the nations in occupied territories of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. More than 100,000 people were driven out of their homes and deported to the deep inner regions of the Soviet Union.
The mass deportation started on Saturday night between 13th and 14th of June, 1941. At about 1-2AM the Soviet authorities, with the help of local collaborationists, started waking up the …

Yes, it’s idiotic and ridiculous, but it is actually happening:
Eastern Europeans who believe their countries were occupied by the Soviet Union after the Second World War could soon be barred from Russia under new proposals given official weight by the Kremlin.
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The bill has attracted criticism because of its definition of Nazi rehabilitation, with those who “belittle” the Soviet Union’s role in the war or criticise it in any way being regarded as equally culpable as …