Manipulated Minds
byWhen Swedish television broadcast a film based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novella A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the seventies, Finland shut…
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How The Estonian Student Resistance Built an Estonian NATO Base in 1982
byEstonia’s student resistance movement built a British NATO base in Estonia in 1982. And, of course, they wrote a song about it. This week,…
Jukka Mallinen: A Finnish Dissident
byJuuso Salokorpi (editor): The Arithmetic of the Greatness of Ilmari Susiluoto Helsinki. 2020. 413 pages. The twists and turns in the career of Russian…
Terror, Pain and Impunity: The Legacy of Nazi and Soviet Occupation of The Baltic States
byAn interview with The Jews in Latvia Museum Director, Ilja Lenskis Eighty years ago this month, as the world’s attention was focused on Nazi…
Interactive GULAG Timeline
by Design and Audio: Marcus Kolga for Liefa Communications.
Belarusians Still Denied Freedom 80 Years After Molotov-Ribbentrop
byRemarks by Andrei Sannikov delvered at the September 12, 2019, Toronto, Black Ribbon Day Confernece It’s a great privilege to be here tonight, thank…
Garry Kasparov Keynote Address, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 80th Anniversary
byKeynote addressed delivered by Garry Kasparov on September 12, 2019, in Toronto at the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 80th Anniversary (“The Black Ribbon Day Conference”) at…
How Putin’s Stalinist nostalgia made him an enemy of democracy
byFor roughly as long as there have been democratic elections, there has been the threat and practice of foreign interference. Certainly, new developments have…
Growing Russian Nostalgia for Soviet Past Far More Dangerous than It Appears
byNew polls show that the share of Russians who would like to go “back to the USSR” is at its highest levels over the…
COMMEMORATING THE VICTIMS OF WWII WITHOUT GLORIFYING TANKS OR STALIN
byThe discord that culminated in the Bronze Soldier riots in Tallinn 11 years ago, has not yet disappeared from Estonia’s national conscience. And on…