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Map: Aggression in Europe. 81 years since the Hitler-Stalin Pact

23. August 2020

August 23 marks the 81st anniversary of the signing of Hitler-Stalin Pact that paved the way for World War II, which completely changed the map of Europe, and caused the loss of millions. The pact

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Full of mistakes, omissions and half-truths: international remembrance institution's reaction to Putin’s history article

10. July 2020

Platform of European Memory and Conscience, an organisation that brings together 62 members from 20 countries from Europe and North America, has criticised an article by Russian president Vladimir

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Patarei Prison exhibition area Communism is Prison reopens to visitors

22. May 2020

Patarei Prison international exhibition area Communism is Prison (Tallinn, Estonia) starts its second season today, 22 May. It introduces the visitors to the complex’s diverse, nearly 200-year history

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VIDEO: The end of World War II - two concepts

08. May 2020

What did the end of World War II mean for Eastern and Central Europe? Edward Lucas (Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis) and Roger Moorhouse (British historian and author) shortly

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A new online exhibition on Red Army terror in Estonia post-WWII

07. May 2020

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has compiled an interactive exhibition The ‘Liberator’ Arrived in cooperation with the National Library of Estonia. The exhibition can be seen HERE . The

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The map of the aftermath of WWII: Half of Europe under communist dictatorship

06. May 2020

The Soviet Union gave a huge contribution to crushing Nazi Germany, but by doing so, it illegally reoccupied or subjugated many countries. Several generations had to live without human rights and in

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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