Josef Stalin
Breaking the silence on Stalin's crimes
January 08, 2010Few people in the former Soviet countries today speak about Josef Stalin’s Great Purge. But after years of silence, 82-year-old Bubura Kydyralieva decided to reveal her family’s story about the executions of scores of Kyrgyz victims in...
Mixed feelings, as Russia marks 130 years since Stalin's birth
December 21, 2009By Kevin O'Flynn Millions of Soviet citizens perished in prison camps and ethnic-deportation campaigns under the reign of Josef Stalin. Nonetheless, he remains one of Russia's most popular historical figures, remembered fondly as a strong leader who...
Stalin returns to the Moscow Metro
October 14, 2009Produced by Alexander Kulygin of RFE/RL's Russian Service Josef Stalin’s name and image once graced the walls of the Moscow metro, but they disappeared during the era of de-Stalinization in the 1950s. Now, months before the 130th anniversary...