Tag: Petrograd

Putinism is What the White Russians Might Have Implemented Had They Won, Pastukhov Says

May 25, 2015

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, May 25 — Given the recrudescence of Soviet institutions in the Russian-occupied Crimea and Donbass, ever more people are playing the game of “what if” – “what if” the August 1991 putsch or October 1993 clash in Moscow had ended another way or “what if” the anti-Bolshevik White Russians had defeated Lenin and returned […]

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Soviets Destroyed or Hid 95 Percent of Graves of Russian Dead from World War I

June 30, 2014

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, June 28 – No more than one in 20 of the graves of Russian soldiers who died in World War I remains undisturbed to this day, the result of a Soviet policy intended to downplay Russia’s role in that conflict and shift losses from it to the deaths arising from the Russian civil war, […]

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