. Even today, photographers who attempt to take pictures inside the mausoleum on the Red […]
Tag: Stalin
Friend of the Little Children
In the Soviet Union, the 1930s unfolded dismally. Collectivisation was not going very well, and rumors […]
Grief by Dmitri Baltermants, 1942
The photo above which would come to symbolize the high toll that the Soviet Union had paid was taken by Dmitri Baltermants in January 1942, seven months after Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
Stalin Is Dead
On March 1st, 1953, the morning after an all-night dinner in his country estate outside […]
Stalin’s Son
Stalin’s son, Jakov Djugashvili Stalin was an engineer by profession, During the Second World War, […]
The View From Lenin’s Tomb
As I mentioned before somewhere, Lenin didn’t wish to have a mausoleum to him, but […]
The Fall of Iron Felix
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) During the Soviet times, the head of its feared secret police (which […]
Red Star Over Russia
Above, a candid picture of Josef Stalin, captured by Lt. Gen. Nikolai Vlasik, the dictator’s bodyguard. […]
The Stalin Monument Toppled
Built as the birthday present to Stalin on his 70th birthday (December 21st 1949), the Stalin […]
Lenin and Stalin
When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin ordered the best doctors and scientists in the Soviet […]