News Source: Macleans
| 29 days ago
President Dmitry Medvedev told Russians Friday that there can be no justification for the Soviet government's crimes against its own people, lamenting millions of deaths and "maimed destinies" in some of the strongest criticism of the Communist era...
News Source: Sify News
| 29 days ago
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says there can be no justification for the Soviet-era oppression that left millions of people dead at the hands of their own state. Medvedev said in a blog posting Friday that Russians must not forget the crimes of...
News Source: B92
| 29 days ago
Russia commemorated on Friday tens of millions of victims to political repression in the 1930s-1950s orchestrated by Joseph Stalin. In Moscow, hundreds of people gathered during a cold spell and first snow on central Lubyanka Square, where the much...
News Source: United Press International
| 29 days ago
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday millions of people died in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin because of terror and false accusations. I am convinced that no development of the country, no successes and ambitions can be achieved at...
News Source: The New York Times
| 29 days ago
Medvedev on Friday warned that Russians have lost their sense of horror over Stalin’s purges, and called for the construction of museums and memorial centers devoted to the atrocities, as well as further efforts to unearth and identify the dead. Mr.
News Source: BBC
| 29 days ago
Millions of Soviet citizens died under Stalin's rule and Mr Medvedev said it was not possible to justify those who exterminated their own people. He also warned against efforts to falsify history and defend repression. Some Russian politicians have...