Tag: Soviet
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is dead
Status: 08/31/2022 05:54 am Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91. He was considered one of the fathers of German…
Video: Soviet President Gorbachev is dead
STORY: He changed the world. The last President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. Now he is dead. In initial reactions, German and international politicians acknowledged Gorbachev’s importance for the…
Overthrow: Riga razes Soviet victory monument to the ground
Watch the video: Violent overthrow: Riga razes Soviet victory monument to the ground. A gigantic splash to say goodbye. The Latvian authorities demolished a monument from the Soviet era in…
Video: Riga: Soviet monument demolished
The demolition goes back to a decision of the Latvian Parliament. Accordingly, all signs that refer to totalitarian systems must be removed. The demolition goes back to a decision of…
Estonia and Latvia want to remove Soviet monuments
08/07/2022, 18:49 4 min reading time In the former Soviet Union countries there are still some monuments from the Soviet era. In the course of the Ukraine war, some countries…
May 9th at the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin – Politics
Natalia Tokareva has been living in Berlin for ten years now. Since then she has been coming regularly on May 9 to the Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten, which…
Decades after the withdrawal: This is how bizarre the Soviet ghost houses look today
They left long ago, but left their mark because there was hardly any orderly handover: the 340,000 members of the “Western Group of Troops”, as the former “Group of Soviet…
Soviet memorial in Treptower Park in Berlin smeared – culture
“Why?” was painted in red letters on Thursday night on the base of the bronze soldier figure that dominates the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park in Berlin. Other parts…
Russian war of aggression: Soviet memorial in Berlin defaced
Russian war of aggression Soviet memorial in Berlin defaced Unknown people sprayed the Soviet memorial in Berlin-Treptow. Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa © dpa-infocom GmbH “Death to all Russians”: These are slogans…
US Congress demands Soviet weapons for Ukraine – Politics
While the Russian shells are laying rubble in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to increase the pressure on the governments in the West. They are supposed to supply weapons, not…