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Mediocre puppeteers: did the “West” try to set the Third Reich against the USSR?
Among many modern Russian “patriots”, supporters of the “strong hand” and the “confrontation with the ...
“Black people haven’t invented anything”
One of the most popular stereotypes of the right is the brief thesis “Black people ...
The dangers of geographic determinism
We often hear the thesis from conservatives that Russia has a terrible climate, and for ...
Anti-Westernism in Russia: “enemies everywhere”
Anti-Western rhetoric became entrenched in Russia in the middle of the 19th century during the ...
Propagandist Yuri Zhukov
If Elena Prudnikova, Yuri Mukhin, and many other publicists who defend Stalin simply invent facts, ...
Yury Mukhin, the Falsifier
One of the pillars on which the Stalinist legendarium rests is the publicist Yury Mukhin. ...
“There Was No Corruption Under Stalin”
The conclusion that there was no corruption under Joseph Stalin is often drawn from the ...