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‘Maria’s Silence’ Director Talks Showbiz Pals of Dictators: “They Know How to Pretend”
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDavis Simanis’s period drama Marijas Klusums (Maria’s Silence) centers on a real-life silent movie...
Putin Evokes Hitler as Cops Parade Soviet Secret Police Costumes
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSputnik/Pool via ReutersNot even local cops cosplaying as Soviet secret police and a newly installed...
'Iron Felix' rises again over Russia's spy service in Moscow
Reuters via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA bronze statue of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and...
Back in the USSR: New high school textbooks in Russia whitewash Stalin’s terror as Putin wages war...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe whitewashing of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his crimes is crucial for understanding...
Moscow prison for US reporter was used in Stalin's purges
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLefortovo prison, where American journalist Evan Gershkovich has been jailed on espionage charges,...
Jonathan Dimbleby: How Stalin’s audacious deception humbled the German army
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoAs the clock ticked down to D-Day, Churchill’s apprehension grew. He concealed his forebodings in...
'We kill people, too': Unconscionably, mass shootings are part of America
United Press International via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCrosses pay tribute to three people slain in a racially motivated mass shooting on Sunday in...
The Secret History of a Moscow Hotel's Double Life
Town & Country via AOL· 11 months agoThe Secret History of a Moscow Hotel's Double LifeALEXANDER NEMENOV - Getty Images For much of the war, arriving journalists found the famous dining room...
I'm close friends with Evan Gershkovich, the journalist wrongfully detained in Russia for 100 days....
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoEvan Gershkovich "lights up every room he walks in," his friend Jeremy Berke writes. Gershkovich has...
Putin’s New Defense Minister Secretly Had Close Ties to Yevgeny Prigozhin—and Stalin
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoGettyThe wiry-looking economist with no military experience who Vladimir Putin has chosen to serve...