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Seventy years after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin "gifted" the Palace of Culture and Science to Warsaw, the towering ...
Is the Stalin era being glorified in Lithuania? LONDON, Sept. 12, 2007 — -- Many dictatorships are based on cults of personality, and the Soviet Union was no exception. Communist literature ...
Soviet era posters on display at London’s Tate Modern museum are a ... red mouth with their bayonets and red flags. ... Stalin launched the First Five Year Plan in 1928 and embarked on ...
The ornaments and other holiday items on display as part of “Winter Holidays in the Soviet Era” at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis have a complex history.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A small flag shop, tucked away in the courtyard of a Kabul market, has documented Afghanistan’s turbulent history over the decades with its ever-changing merch… ...
A sculpture of Joseph Stalin was destroyed in Tbilisi in 1961, but Grigori Oniani, a collector of the Soviet dictator’s memorabilia, recovered the nose and displays it at his home/museum.
Russian soldiers wear the Red Army uniform of World War II and carry Soviet-era military flags with a red star during a parade to mark the Red Army's victory over the Nazis in this May 9, 2000 ...
A replica of a Soviet-era statue of Josef Stalin has been unveiled in a Moscow metro station as part of an attempt by the Kremlin to reappraise the dictator’s legacy. The life-sized sculpture ...
Stalin's nose, a fragment of a Soviet-era sculpture of Joseph Stalin destroyed in Tbilisi in 1961 and recovered by Stalin memorabilia collector Grigori Oniani in 1994, at his house and museum in ...