Tag: Great Fatherland War

Russian Who Went to Fight in Donbass Says He was ‘Not in an Army but in a Criminal Band’

April 19, 2015

Staunton, April 19 – – Bondo Dorovskikh, a Russian businessman, volunteered to go to Ukraine to “fight fascism” and defend “the Russian idea;” but he says he rapidly discovered the situation in the Donbass was not as he had been led to expect and that he had been enrolled “not in an army but in […]

World War II Victory ‘New Civic Religion’ in Russia, Polish Commentator Says

April 12, 2015

Staunton, April 12 – Writing in Warsaw’s Gazeta Wyborcza a week ago, Wacław Radziwinowicz argued that Moscow’s victory in World War II has become “the new civic religion” in Russia, a suggestion that has provoked a strong negative reaction in that country with many Russians saying that the Polish journalist had insulted their national history. […]

Ukraine Live Day 418: Soviet-era Statues Toppled in Kharkiv

April 11, 2015

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