Stalin

Lenin and Stalin

. Even today, photographers who attempt to take pictures inside the mausoleum on the Red Square where Vladimir Lenin lay…

1 year ago

Friend of the Little Children

In the Soviet Union, the 1930s unfolded dismally. Collectivisation was not going very well, and rumors of plots and coups permeated.…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Stalin Is Dead

On March 1st, 1953, the morning after an all-night dinner in his country estate outside Moscow centre, Joseph Stalin failed…

14 years ago

Stalin’s Son

Stalin's son, Jakov Djugashvili Stalin was an engineer by profession, During the Second World War, he served as a senior…

15 years ago

The View From Lenin’s Tomb

As I mentioned before somewhere, Lenin didn't wish to have a mausoleum to him, but Stalin ordered it be done.…

15 years ago

The Fall of Iron Felix

(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) During the Soviet times, the head of its feared secret police (which underwent so many different name…

15 years ago

Red Star Over Russia

Above, a candid picture of Josef Stalin, captured by Lt. Gen. Nikolai Vlasik, the dictator's bodyguard. Vlaski, Stalin's erstwhile confidante, co-conspirator…

15 years ago

The Stalin Monument Toppled

Built as the birthday present to Stalin on his 70th birthday (December 21st 1949), the Stalin Monument in Budapest has became…

15 years ago

Lenin and Stalin

When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin ordered the best doctors and scientists in the Soviet Union to preserve Lenin's body.…

15 years ago