1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place
Points: 254 | Comments: 222 | Author: samdung
Hope Against Hope - Wikipedia
Hope Against Hope may refer to: an autobiographical work by Nadezhda Mandelshtam covering the period of Stalinism Hope Against Hope (album), a noise rock
Well, that's just ridiculously exagerrated and unrealistic- WAIT, IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, AN…
1) In Death of Stalin, the number of Medals on Zhukov's chest was actually significantly reduced, compared to how many he really had. 2) In Zootopia, the entire plan of Bellwether to make prey anima...
Cold War - Wikipedia
accumulated after broken promises by Stalin and Molotov concerning Europe and Iran. Following the World War II Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, the country
Why is Adolf the only name that got ruined by one guy having it?
After WWII, everyone just kinda stopped naming their sons Adolf. But people continued naming their sons Osama after 9/11, kept naming their sons Josef after Stalin did his thing, etc. Why is it only t...
Stalin: The Tyrant as Editor
Points: 77 | Comments: 5 | Author: striking
E. Amaldi, C. Dilworth, G.P.S. Occhialini on F.G. Houtermans
In the Occhialini-Dilworth Archives of the University of Milan are preserved four typescripts by E. Amaldi, dealing with F.G. Houtermans, German physicist, who fled to the USSR to escape the Nazis. During a Stalinist purge he was arrested. The typesc...
Did Kim Il Sung actually do anything bad?
When looking through imperial core lists and discussions on who they think are the "worst/most evil leaders," you'll see the typical ones: Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. But for some reason I see ...
Vasily Stalin - Wikipedia
Holmes 1999, p. 72 Sullivan 2015, p. 73 Kun 2003, p. 355 Kotkin 2017, p. 600 Kotkin 2017, p. 751 Kotkin 2017, p. 1043, note 248 Kun 2003, p. 360 Kun 2003, p
What do you think about Stephen Kotkin's books about Stalin?
Are they trustworthy? Are they biased? Thank you!...
Episode with Stephen Kotkin, Stalin biographer and historian
Points: 3 | Comments: 1 | Author: hackandthink
Anyone read Stephen Kotkin's biography of Stalin?
Only parts 2 of 3 have been released so so far he's only covered his birth up through early 1941, but overall I've found it good. I'd say Kotkin is a liberal and on the whole pretty unsympathetic to S...
Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia
222–224; Kotkin 2014, pp. 546–548; Khlevniuk 2015, p. 79. Kotkin 2014, p. 426. Kotkin 2014, p. 453. Kotkin 2014, p. 455. Kotkin 2014, p. 469. Kotkin 2014
Stephen Kotkin on Putin, Ukraine and Russia
Points: 5 | Comments: 0 | Author: avrionov
Deviationism - Wikipedia
deviationist is a person who expresses a deviation: an abnormality or departure. In Stalinist ideology and practice, deviationism is an expressed belief which does
The Queen consort of Mongolia, Genepil, in Mongolia. The last queen consort and married to…
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Wikipedia
the Soviet Union. In 1962, he published his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich—an account of Stalinist repressions—with approval from
IamA survivor of Stalin’s dictatorship and I'm back to answer more questions. My father wa…
Hello, my name is Anatole Konstantin. You can click [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2dt68p/iama_survivor_of_stalins_dictatorship_my_father/) to read my previous AMA about growing up unde...
Battle of Stalingrad - Wikipedia
Stalin instructed that the summer campaign be based on "active strategic defence," while also ordering local offensives across the Eastern Front. Southwestern
Horrible boss blocks my promotion and other job prospects, so I go Liam Neeson on his ass.…
EDIT & important update: Almost six months after I made this post and I just found out STALIN now knows I did this to him !!! A former colleague came to my bar last night and told me this thread o...