Tag: Lenin statues

New Laws on Archives and Names Show Ukraine ‘Increasingly Diverging’ from Russia, Scholar Says

April 11, 2015

Staunton, April 10 – “The mental gap between Ukraine and Russia is growing, and the trajectories of the two country are ever more strongly diverging,” according to Maksim Artemyev in an assessment of new Ukrainian laws opening Soviet-era secret police archives, de-Sovietizing the country’s toponymy, and revising key judgments about the past. In a comment […]

‘Stalin Was a Greater Fascist Than Bandera or Mussolini,’ Zubov Says

July 28, 2014

Staunton, July 25 – The way in which many in Russia and elsewhere view Stepan Bandera and his anti-Soviet movement during World War II is “an example of the big lie of the Soviet system” and its influence in post-Soviet times, according to Andrey Zubov, the MGIMO historian who was dismissed from his post for […]