Soviet Union

This article was originally published in November 2017. It is re-published today to mark Holodomor Remembrance Day, which in Ukraine falls on the 4th Saturday of November. This year we also…

In analysing this subject, Holodomor, it is compelling to take into account lapse of time, lack of legislation at the time, the weakness of international law and the current improbability…

On the outskirts of Berlin in Treptower Park stands a dramatic 12 metre high statue. It depicts a Soviet soldier brandishing a sword in one hand and clutching a young…

Although not on the scale of those that disappeared during the Stalin era, the purpose was the same; as well as criminals, enemies of the State such as aristocrats, businessmen,…

Forty-seven Soviet personnel were expelled from France on 5th April 1983 for what was described as “a systematic search on French territory for technological and scientific information, particularly in the…

He was a great poet, certainly, one of the most prominent Ukrainian poets of the modern era. It has been said that Vasyl Stus a poet dissident and martyr marvelled…

The Black January was a brutal repression against the civilian population of Baku on 19-20 January 1990. In response to attempts by the pro-independence movement to overthrow the government of…

In 1939, when the Second World War broke out, he was detained on the Isle of Man and later sent to Canada as the citizen of an enemy nation. He…