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VIDEO: A repressed man’s farm turned into a Soviet military base

07. April 2020

Mara Kopa tells a story of her father who was deported with his entire family by the communist regime of the Soviet Union from their farm in Kunči, Latvia in 1949 to Omsk, Siberia. In 1958, he

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Dangerous precedent: Lenin's statue to be erected in the German city of Gelsenkirchen

03. April 2020

The Platform of European Memory and Conscience expressed its concern regarding the announced erection of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the German city of Gelsenkirchen. Many members of the German

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Russian judge calls the USSR an illegally established country and deems it important to compensate for its damages

09. March 2020

Konstantin Aranovsky, a dissentient judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia, called the USSR “an illegally established country”. According to him, modern Russia was created not as the legal

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President Ilves supports the establishment of the International Museum for the Victims of Communism in Tallinn

28. February 2020

Toomas Hendrik Ilves , the former President of Estonia and a visiting fellow at Stanford University, supports the establishment of the International Museum for the Victims of Communism and the

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Two anticommunist anecdotes (Vol. 1)

14. February 2020

What is the difference between a communist and an anticommunist? A communist has read the works of Marx, Lenin and others, an anticommunist has understood them. ✱✱✱ Morning. Communism. Sign on the

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Communist Crimes Tribunal initiative gaining momentum in Europe

10. December 2019

Over 200 European politicians, educational leaders, cultural and public figures have signed a petition to form an international court to condemn communist ideology and the regimes based on this

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VIDEO: fall of the Berlin Wall 30. How did that happen?

15. November 2019

Anna Kaminsky, the witness of the fall of the wall from the side of East Berlin and the director of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED‐Dictatorship in Eastern Germany is telling the

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VIDEO: fall of the Berlin Wall 30. What did we learn?

15. November 2019

Anna Kaminsky, the witness of the fall of the wall from the side of East Berlin and the director of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED‐Dictatorship in Eastern Germany talks about

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Researchers from 13 countries discuss mass burial sites of victims of communist terror

28. October 2019

In cooperation of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory and the Memorial Research and Information Centre (St. Petersburg, Russia), researchers from 13 countries will gather at a conference in