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Harlan Crow attends a book release reception by The George W. Bush Institute for 'The 4 Percent Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs,' on July 17, 2012, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
April 9, 2023, 11:20 am
US Supreme Court judge’s megadonor friend said to own pieces of Nazi memorabilia
Harlan Crow, who reportedly gave lavish gifts to Justice Clarence Thomas, reportedly owns signed ‘Mein Kampf’ and Hitler paintings, as well as garden statues of Mussolini, Stalin
By Ash Obel and AP
Franklin D. Roosevelt, flanked by Winston Churchill, right, and Joseph Stalin, sit on chairs outside the Russian embassy during their conference between November 28 and December 1, 1943, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)
February 4, 2023, 10:59 am
The (probable) Nazi plot to kill Churchill, FDR and Stalin all at once in Tehran
In their new book ‘The Nazi Conspiracy,’ political thriller writing duo Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch dig into a mysterious assassination attempt that some scholars deny to this day
By Rich Tenorio
Leonid Gozman, a liberal politician, walks escorted by a police officer in Moscow, Russia, on July 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Alec Sander)
August 30, 2022, 6:31 pm
Russian Jewish politician jailed for comparing Stalin to Hitler
Court sends Leonid Gozman, who holds Israeli citizenship, to 15 days in prison for 2020 Facebook post
By AP and ToI Staff
Adolf Hitler with his class as he attended high school at the age of 14, circa 1904. Hitler is at the extreme right in the upper row. (AP Photo)
April 26, 2022, 1:45 am
What were Hitler, Stalin, Mao, like as kids? Early years of 6 dictators…plus Putin
In ‘Before Evil,’ out on April 26, author and historian Brandon Gauthier paints a picture of typical, if somewhat misfit, youths who enjoyed reading and were shy around girls
By Rich Tenorio
Then-commander of the Judea and Samaria Division Tamir Yadai during an interview on January 6, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
March 3, 2021, 11:17 am
IDF general laments his ‘Stalinesque’ power over settler youths
Central Command chief heard in leaked recording saying Israel ‘isn’t a normal country,’ citing administrative orders handed to teens; army expresses regret over remark
By ToI Staff
Leon Trotsky (Century Co, NY, 1921 / Wikipedia)
August 19, 2020, 7:54 am
Mexicans mark 80 years since Trotsky was assassinated by Stalin agent
Museum at home where Russian revolutionary was brutally murdered with ice axe still bears marks of earlier hit attempt as exile sought safety
By Natalia Cano and Moises AVILA
Joseph Stalin in July, 1941. (Public domain)
June 23, 2020, 3:21 pm
Far from toppling statues, former Soviet Union puts up new monuments to Stalin
After Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces almost unveiled a mural of late dictator on June 22, Moscow-born former MK Ksenia Svetlova explores a troubling new trend of Stalin worship
By Ksenia Svetlova
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the Conservative Party's General Election campaign launch, at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, central England, on November 6, 2019. (Adrian DENNIS / AFP)
November 7, 2019, 7:42 am
Kicking off UK election campaign, Johnson likens Corbyn to Stalin
Labour leader dismisses comparison as ‘nonsense’; British PM also inaccurately says rival ‘sided with Putin’ in poisoning scandal
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Bidder Ole Bjorn Fausa, of Norway, holds the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal in Baltimore, March 27, 2014, the second Nobel Peace Prize ever to come to auction. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
October 4, 2019, 11:21 am
From Hitler to Michael Jackson, unlikely names for Nobel Peace Prize
Nominations for the coveted prize have included some choices — from the Führer to the ‘King of Pop’ — that, to say the least, have seemed unlikely and outright bizarre
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
Participants at a public prayer at the Kuropaty memorial site in Minsk, Belarus, April 4, 2019. (Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
May 22, 2019, 2:19 am
In Belarus, anti-Semitism erupts when Jews open eatery near Stalin-era gravesite
Protests against a Minsk restaurant have turned violent and anti-Semitic, challenging the local Jewish population and the country’s authoritarian government
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Immigration Minister Yoav Galant speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv on February 28, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 6, 2019, 7:17 pm
Likud minister says Israeli left ‘suckled on the legacy of Stalin, Lenin’
Blue and White member accuses Yoav Gallant of ‘insane incitement’ for saying left-wing figures believe ‘the ends always justify the means’
By ToI Staff
A leftist demonstrator holds a placard featuring a portrait of communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg during a march to the Monument for the Socialists at Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery where Luxemburg is buried, on January 13, 2019. (John Macdougall/AFP)
January 13, 2019, 2:37 pm
Gloomy German left remembers murder of Rosa Luxemburg
The Jewish-born communist activist, killed in 1919 amid social and political unrest following WWI, has become a ‘pop icon’ for a divided German opposition
By Mathieu FOULKES
In this September 26, 1918, photo, a US Army 37-mm gun crew man their position during the World War One Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France. (AP Photo, File)
October 28, 2018, 6:44 pm
How World War I shaped the 20th century and beyond
The ‘war to end all wars’ turned out to be the opposite, as the post-war settlement provided fertile ground for the rise of Nazism and its horrors
By Pierre GLACHANT
A photo taken on September 28 shows the forested area near Moscow known as Kommunarka where historians believe Stalin's NKVD secret police killed and buried more than 6,000 people in 1937-41. (AFP Photo/Andrei Borodulin)
October 9, 2018, 7:41 am
Russian historians use Nazi photo to locate Stalin-era mass graves
Soviet secret police covered up its executions by planting trees over killing fields in Moscow’s forested Kommunarka area
By Ola CICHOWLAS
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun with their dogs, June 1942. (Bundesarchiv bild)
September 4, 2018, 6:49 am
Putin grants authors partial access to secret Soviet archives on Hitler’s death
Investigative journalists Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina dig deep into classified Russian materials that are still part of an ongoing Cold War-esque propaganda battle
By JP O’ Malley
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