Radio Liberty poll on Stalinist purges ends in epic trolling thread

After Radio Liberty asked Russians to recall the fate of their families in times of repression, the thread was flooded with mocking tweets about “grandparents who died childless after 20 years of executions.” In the early hours of Monday, on the 65th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death, the Russian branch of Radio Liberty posted a […]

Russia is finally trying to deal with its dark Stalinist history

Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Russian society is starting to come to terms with the darkest years of Stalinism that gripped the country and its people in the 1930s. Though authorities in some cases have cooperated with grassroots efforts to recover the remains of executed family members and help them to rebuild the memories of their ancestors, the […]