USSR

Alexander Palladin12.11.2024

My father, Aleksandr Ivanovich Palladin, had a calling for writing since his youth. At the age of 16, having started working as a turner at the largest Podolsk Mechanical Plant (PMZ) in the Moscow region, he began publishing essays about the best workers in the plant’s newspaper “Nasha Pravda” and joined a literary society formed […]

Alexander Palladin09.11.2024

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One In 1984, a year after the events of the previous article, Yakovlev released a book “From Truman to Reagan”, in which he “lashed” the master of the White House and his team with the expressions retired after the death of Stalin, the likes of “Clique of Reagan”. Another year passed, and, […]

Alexander Palladin08.11.2024

“A few years ago, a former American intelligence officer whom I knew well, having arrived in Moscow, during dinner at a restaurant on Ostozhenka, said: ‘We know that you have had successes that you have every right to be proud of. But time will pass, and you will gasp (if this is declassified) at what […]

Alexander Palladin06.11.2024

My speech at Richard Bland College, Petersburg, Va. March 20, 1985. “Mr. Chairman, esteemed hosts, ladies and gentlemen! As little as I might know about your country and your mores, I do know that a person in my present position is expected to start with а joke. I feel being under special pressure of this […]

Alexander Palladin04.11.2024

In August of 1983 16-year old Andrei Berezhkov, youngest son of Valentin Berezhkov, first secretary of the USSR Embassy, sparked a diplomatic confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Former Stalin’s interpreter who had translated Soviet leaders’ talks with Hitler, Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, in the United States V. Berezhkov represented the Institute […]

Alexander Palladin01.11.2024

Back in April 1982 US media revealed President Reagan’s intention to have lunch with a group of Soviet dissidents who had emigrated to the West. Their list contained the names of about a dozen of persons barely known to American people. Meanwhile, the extraordinary event was planned to coincide with the renewal of the Soviet-American […]

Alexander Palladin30.10.2024

Back in 1983 USA-based press published a report claiming that the American Big Brother managed to eavesdrop on what Leonid Brezhnev would say using the supposedly eavesdropping-prone phone in his limousine. The veracity of this piece of news was supported by quotes from US government sources. This was followed by even more sensational publications on […]

Alexander Palladin22.10.2024

It is generally accepted that the first Soviet citizens to undergo internships at Columbia University were the future architect of perestroika, Gorbachev’s closest (after his wife) adviser, Alexander Yakovlev, Oleg Kalugin, who later became a KGB general, and two others whose names have sunk into oblivion. As part of the thawing of relations between the […]

Alexander Palladin19.10.2024

38 years ago, in the capital of Iceland, Gorbachev and Reagan had their second personal meeting. It almost ended with an agreement on the complete elimination of nuclear missile weapons of the USSR and the USA. Fortunately for us, at the last moment, the advisers of the then head of the White House persuaded […]

Egor Sennikov15.10.2024

An artist trying to publish his story about the horrors he experienced in the camps. A writer who became a propagandist in the service of the Nazis. What do they have in common — and where did their different paths lead them? A tram crawls along the Trinity Bridge — oh, excuse me, the Equality […]

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Guilty Without Actual Guilt

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part Two

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One

The Soviet Newsman Speaks in the USA

Andrei Berezhkov’s Greetings To Mick Jagger

Solzhenitsyn: A Worldwide Dissident

US Big Brother and Brezhnev

The First Soviet Interns at Columbia University

Assisted By Reagan Fate Was Merciful to Russia

On Both Sides of Transparent Glass

There Was a Woman in the Beginning

Guilty Without Actual Guilt

Don’t get your hopes up on Trump

“Deplorables” in the US