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3 Times Stalin's Flying Phobia, Cited by Historians, Changed Summit Plans

The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's deep-seated fear of flying created ripple effects across global diplomacy during World ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Stalin’s Library’ Review: The Soviet Union’s Red Leader Was a Red Reader

Edward Gibbon sits proudly upon my bookshelf. A set of volumes that I own, neatly stacked, comprises his “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” What do you make of me because it is ...
The American Spectator

Remembering Stalin’s Atrocities Against the Ukrainian People

The images from Ukraine in recent days have been shocking, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to descend even lower into the realm of pure evil than he’s already gone if he hopes to do to ...
World War Two on MSN

Operation Barbarossa - Biggest Land Invasion in History

June 22 1941. The first day of Operation Barbarossa begins as Adolf Hitler’s German armies invade Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union with the largest force on the longest front ever seen in human ...
The Patriot Ledger

Putin's tactics in Ukraine rival Stalin's engineered famine in the 1930s

Vladimir Putin’s brazen and barbarous invasion of Ukraine is reminiscent of the artificially engineered famine Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin used in 1932-1933 in an attempt to extinguish Ukraine.
Time

Rehabilitating Joseph Stalin

It’s hard to imagine any of Russia’s current leaders getting a birthday party like the one thrown Monday at Moscow’s Ismailovsky Hotel for the former despot, Josef Stalin. The grand hall was packed ...