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Moscow's occupying authorities reinstate a statue of Lenin that was taken down by Ukraine years ago in the city of Melitopol, November 5, 2022. (Twitter: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 5, 2022, 5:57 pm
Moscow reinstates Lenin statue in Ukraine’s Melitopol years after Kyiv took it down
As part of a ‘de-communization drive,’ Ukraine dismantled Lenin statues nationwide after its 2014 revolution overthrew a Moscow-backed regime
By AFP
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
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) annual conference, at the Port of Tyne, in South Shields, England, on November 22, 2021. (Owen Humphreys/Pool Photo via AP)
November 23, 2021, 2:15 pm
Moses, Peppa Pig and car noises: UK’s Johnson gives rambling speech
British PM says he ‘came down from Sinai’ to give officials ‘new ten commandments thou shalt develop,’ recounts trip to theme park dedicated to porcine preschool favorite
By ToI Staff
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
Peruvian mayoral candidate Hitler Alba Sanchez (YouTube screenshot)
September 24, 2018, 6:40 pm
Hitler squares off against Lennin in Peruvian mayoral election
‘I’m the good Hitler’ says candidate, who insists his father didn’t know who the Nazi dictator was when he was named
By ToI Staff
A man drinks a beer in a Budweiser pavilion in front of the Lenin statue and the Luzhniki Stadium as fans arrive for the semifinal match between Croatia and England, during the 2018 soccer World Cup in Moscow, Russia, July 11, 2018 . (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)
July 15, 2018, 8:45 pm
Lenin statue sandwiched by ads for Budweiser, Visa
Soccer World Cup brings to Moscow the kind of brands that Russian revolutionaries strongly opposed, say experts
By Ronald Blum
The Lenin Mausoleum and the Kremlin walls in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, October 08, 2014. (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)
November 5, 2017, 10:42 am
Russia struggles with legacy of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution
Many now see the events that led to the establishment of the Soviet Union as coming at too great a price for the nation
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Trotsky portrayed as a butcher in the upcoming Russian television series bearing his name. (Courtesy)
September 28, 2017, 3:58 pm
Russian TV series claims Jewish Trotsky masterminded bloody 1917 revolution
Leaving historians unsure whether show is anti-Semitic or simply sensationalist, upcoming drama accuses Marxist thinker of murdering tsar’s family
By Julie Masis
A sketch allegedly featuring the German StG44 rifle at a fragment of the newly unveiled monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, in downtown Moscow on September 22, 2017. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
September 23, 2017, 4:13 am
Red faces as Russia’s Kalashnikov monument shows Nazi gun
Erroneous drawing on statue was of an StG44 — for Sturmgewehr (Storm Rifle), a name reputedly conferred by Hitler himself
By AFP
Masha Gessen, author of 'Where the Jews Aren't.' (Lee Towndrow)
October 10, 2016, 10:27 pm
Author opens the Pandora’s box of Russia’s curious autonomous Jewish ghost town
While Chaim Weitzman and Nahum Sokolow were in Britain campaigning for a Zionist state, the Bolsheviks were busy implementing their own vision — in the USSR
By JP O’ Malley
The head of a 19-meter high statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is on display at the permanent exhibition "Unveiled. Berlin and its Monuments" in Berlin's Spandau Citadel museum. (AFP/John MacDougall)
April 28, 2016, 7:45 pm
From bullet holes to Lenin’s head: Berlin lays bare its history
New exhibition features 100 rescued statues and monuments telling city’s story spanning royal rule, Nazism, Cold War
By Eloi Royer
In this Wednesday, December 9, 2015 photo, a bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin stands on the front lawn of a house-turned-museum in the village of Khoroshevo, west of Moscow, Russia. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
December 19, 2015, 5:43 am
Russia opens new Stalin museums, grapples with his legacy
Director at one site stresses that while Communist dictator was no angel, he did look after the safety of his citizens
By KATHERINE JACOBSEN
A participant dressed as Darth Vader, a character from the 'Star Wars' film, takes part in an inauguration ceremony of a Darth Vader monument, formerly a statue of Soviet founder Lenin, in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa on October 23, 2015. (AFP/ VOLODYMYR SHUVAYEV)
October 26, 2015, 2:51 am
Ukrainians turn famed Lenin statue into Darth Vader
The ‘Dark Lord’ is an oddly prominent figure in local politics
By Volodymyr Shuvayev
Author Anna Bikont (Marcel Lozinski)
October 15, 2015, 4:15 am
Polish author reopens minefield of who killed Jedwabne’s Jews
In an English translation of her book ‘The Crime and the Silence,’ journalist Anna Bikont sheds more light on the WWII massacre of hundreds of Jews in occupied Poland
By JP O’ Malley
Russian President Vladimir Putin (photo credit: AP/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
June 19, 2013, 7:17 pm
Putin: First Soviet government was mostly Jewish
Speaking at Moscow’s Jewish Museum, Russian president says politicians ‘were guided by false ideological considerations’
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