Meet Spiridon Putin: Russian President Vladimir Putin's Commie Grandpa Was A Chef To Rasputin, Lenin, & Stalin - Did You Know?

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the ...

Welcome to the real Soviet Union – primitive, brutal and racist

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...
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How people survived everyday life in the Soviet Union

This video explores the life hacks that helped people cope with the hardships of Soviet Russia. See how residents of the USSR found practical ways to overcome obstacles and get by during challenging ...

Exit Stalin — reforms and repression in the postwar, pre-collapse USSR

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...