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Joe Biden says no sign yet of China sending Russia weapons

Ex-President Medvedev quotes threatening 1941 Stalin message to urge more weapons production by Russia’s arms industry.

Al Jazeera

China and Russia: explaining a long, complicated friendship

Chinaese leader Xi Jinping just concluded a three-day visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a warm affair in which the two men praised each other and spoke of a profound friendship

The Independent UK

Brawling with elite, Russian mercenary boss wishes politician shot

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the shaven-headed former convict and catering magnate who runs Russia's Wagner mercenary army on the Ukraine frontline, said on Friday that a politician who criticised him should be shot and may end up on a pitchfork.

Reuters

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Review: 'Sell Us the Rope,' by Stephen May

FICTION: An insightful, improbably wry historical novel about a future dictator.

Tribune News Service

Putin evokes Stalingrad to predict victory over 'new Nazism' in Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin evoked the spirit of the Soviet army that defeated Nazi German forces at Stalingrad 80 years ago to declare on Thursday that Russia would defeat a Ukraine supposedly in the grip of a new incarnation of Nazism.

Reuters

New monument to Soviet leader Stalin unveiled ahead of WW2 anniversary

A new bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been unveiled in Volgograd ahead of Wednesday's 80th anniversary of the Red Army's defeat of Nazi invaders in the bloodiest battle of World War Two.

Reuters

How George Orwell’s Animal Farm is helping Ukraine 76 years on

Copy first aimed at Ukraine’s Second World War refugees will now aid those fleeing Russian invasion

The Independent UK

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Historian’s book sets out new theory on Churchill’s real motivations during war

WINSTON Churchill’s primary aim during the Second World War was not to liberate Europe from fascism but to protect the long-term interests of the…

The National (Scotland)

Opinion | Why Crimea Is the Key to Peace in Ukraine

Peace is only possible if Ukraine keeps Crimea. Here's why.

Politico

Soldiers' widows group calls on Putin to order major mobilisation for Ukraine war

A little known patriotic group which supports the widows of Russian soldiers has called on President Vladimir Putin to order a large-scale mobilisation of millions of men and to close the borders to ensure victory in Ukraine.

Reuters

Fallen colossus: USSR's terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus

The Independent UK

Putin’s Nightmare: ‘1984’ Is Now A Bestselling Book In Russia

George Orwell’s “1984” has topped the bestseller list in Russia, a year plagued by President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

Zenger

German parliament set to label 1930s Ukraine famine genocide

Germany’s parliament is expected to approve a resolution labeling as genocide Ukraine’s 1930s “Holodomor” — a famine believed to have killed more than 3 million Ukrainians under the repressive rule of Soviet leader Josef Stalin

The Independent UK

Russia issues formal protest to Vatican after Pope calls out ‘cruelty’ of Ukraine invasion

‘I expressed indignation at such insinuations’ says Russian ambassador

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Ukraine remembers a famine under Stalin, and points to parallels with Putin

Ukraine marked 90 years since a terrible famine that killed at least 4 million of its people. The event was especially poignant this year as Ukraine deals with its present crisis.

WEKU

Civilians escape Kherson after Russian strikes on freed city

Civilians have streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier, after days of intensive shelling by Russian forces.

Irish Independent

Civilians escape Kherson after Russian strikes on freed city

Hundreds of civilians on Saturday streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier.

Irish Independent

Pope Francis says suffering of Ukrainians in current war is an echo of Stalin’s ‘famine genocide’ in 1930s

Pope Francis has linked the suffering of present-day Ukrainians to the 1930s “genocide artificially caused by Stalin”, when the Soviet leader was blamed for creating a famine believed to have killed more than three million.

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Irish Independent

Pope links plight of Ukrainians today to Stalin’s ‘genocide’

The Pope has linked the suffering of present-day Ukrainians to the 1930s “genocide artificially caused by Stalin”, when the Soviet leader was blamed for creating a famine believed to have killed more than three million people.

Reuters

Pope compares Russia's war in Ukraine to 1930s famine inflicted by Stalin

Pope Francis said on Wednesday that Ukrainians were suffering today from the "martyrdom of aggression" and compared Russia's war in Ukraine to the "terrible genocide" of the 1930s, when Soviet leader Josef Stalin inflicted famine on the country.

The Independent UK

Pope links plight of Ukrainians today to Stalin's 'genocide'

Pope Francis is linking the suffering of Ukrainians now to the 1930s “genocide" by starvation that the country experienced under Josef Stalin

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: What Griner may endure in Russian penal system

WNBA star Brittney Griner this week began serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony

Reason

Data on Mass Murder by Government in the 20th Century

Communists killed the most, followed by fascists.

Reuters

Putin turns 70 with a prayer for his health amid war crisis

President Vladimir Putin turned 70 on Friday amid fawning congratulations from subordinates and a plea from Orthodox Patriarch Kirill for all to pray for the health of the longest-serving paramount leader of Russia since Josef Stalin.

The Conversation

Russia has mobilized for war many times before – sometimes it unified the nation, other times it ended in disaster

Vladimir Putin’s mobilization of 300,000 additional Russian soldiers to fight in Ukraine has gotten off to a rocky start.

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