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Vladimir Lenin died on this date one hundred years ago.  That was a good event but a shame he had not died a decade earlier, before he had t...

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Today is the 90th anniversary of Josef Stalin's declaration of war on the kulaks.  Or, as he put it in his own inimitable style on Decem...

On this date 80 years ago the Nazi regime in Germany and the communists ruling the Soviet Union signed a Non-Aggression Pact surprising and ...

"Most of all the blood.  My arms are up to the elbows in blood." - Nikita Khrushchev's (1894-1971) response to playwright M...

Stalin died on this day in 1953. The blue handwriting scrawled over this list is his, and reads "Execute everyone". pic.twitter....

The 1981 Trabant, manufactured in East Germany.  A hysterical introduction to communist cars.

It was seventy years ago this month that Berlin became a city divided, a status it retained until the Berlin Wall, constructed in 1961, came...

This month is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago (for background on the book re...