On September 17 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East while it was fighting Nazi Germany in the West.

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...

A monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin erected in Moscow’s subway is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it’s a mistake to ...

The Moscow Central Administrative District’s prefecture has denied permission for a series of solo pickets planned by the ...

Historians say there is no evidence that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was Jewish or had Jewish ancestry, contrary to the suggestion made in an online interview by American conservative commentator ...

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural ...

Internet users berated news outlet Reuters for referring to Joseph Stalin’s legacy as "polarizing" in a story recognizing the 70th anniversary of the Soviet leader’s death. Reuters published a ...

A statue of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin outside the Stalin Museum in his birthplace of Gori, Georgia in this illustrative image from 2011. An Orthodox priest was criticized for his blessing ...

News about Joseph Stalin, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

U.S. President Donald Trump's adviser, Elon Musk, reposted another user's post on X in March 2025, showing a screenshot reading, "Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people.