USSR

Egor Sennikov09.10.2024

“Dear comrade Zemlyachka… we ask you to let our mother go.“ (F.R5446. Op.56. D.5. L. 53,53ob.) A heart-wrenching letter written in 1942 to Rosalia Zemlyachka (then deputy chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR) from a teenage girl, Nadezhda Sakharova, who lived in the regional Moscow on the Bekasovo state farm near […]

Yuri Chekalin01.10.2024

The Soviet war hero used to drink Coca-Cola disguised as vodka. The Cold War is better remembered for greater disputes, but one of the more intriguing developments to come out of the American-Soviet ideological divide was a special batch of clear Coca-Cola. This is the story of a sweet tooth amid a prohibition on Western […]

Georgy Litvinchuk27.09.2024

On September 24, 1911, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was born. Younger people probably won’t even remember who he was. He headed the USSR for only 11 months and was remembered only for reinstating the 94-year-old Molotov, who had fallen into disgrace under Khrushchev, into the party. Meanwhile, if he had lived at least another six months, […]

Dmitry Litvinov11.09.2024

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The Rapid Evacuation of Soviet Factories During WWII Was a Success — But Why? It is known that with the beginning of the invasion of Germany and its allies into the territory of the USSR, the Soviet government carried out colossal work on the evacuation of industrial enterprises to the east and the emergency deployment […]

Vladimir Morozov03.09.2024

It is not in Russia’s interests to devalue Stalin’s personality. The mythology of Stalin is the central battlefield of ideological platforms wrapped in a historical shell. Representatives of different ideologies argue about nothing more than about Stalin’s open and secret intentions. And if his open intentions are easy to verify from published speeches, works and […]

Andrey Vedyaev29.08.2024

Among the founders and most prominent representatives of Soviet illegal intelligence, the name of General Eitingon occupies a special place. By and large, there were and are no equals to him. And I am certainly proud of my friendship with his daughter Muza and son Leonid. At the same time, until quite recently, the name […]

Klim Zhukov19.08.2024

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Natalia Androsova, great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I, citizen of the USSR Of the descendants of the House of Romanov, Natalia Nikolaevna Androsova (1917-1999), née Princess Iskander — great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I, and her brother Kirill (1915-1992) lived their entire lives in the USSR. The princess was born during the February Revolution, when her family […]

Andrey Vedyaev10.08.2024

The founder of domestic sabotage intelligence is Senior Major of State Security Yakov Serebryansky. A special place in the state security system is occupied by sabotage intelligence. Its purpose, unlike foreign policy intelligence, is not just to collect information about important strategic objects and military and political figures of the enemy, but to penetrate these […]

Andrey Vedyaev29.04.2024

70 years ago, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No.137/40 of March 13, 1954, the State Security Committee was created, which marked a new stage in the history of domestic intelligence services. Over the 37 years of its existence, the KGB has achieved outstanding results in ensuring national security, […]

Viktor Alksnis11.12.2022

In those tragic years, I happened to be in the thick of things, to visit the offices of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, to try to convince them to abandon the course towards the collapse of the great Power. To speak from the rostrum of the union parliament, warning of an impending catastrophe. Trying to wake up […]

“… Let Our Mother Go”

Clear Coca-Cola for Marshal Zhukov

Controversial Chernenko

Soviet Evacuation of Factories in WWII Was a Success

Diplomatic Game of Stalin

High Espionage

Great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I and Citizen of the USSR

Reconnaissance for Defeat

Lubyanka — the KGB House in Moscow

The Day of the Death of the USSR

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One

Who Won The Election?

The Soviet Newsman Speaks in the USA

Unforgettable Parade