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Peter Andrews / Reuters Putin’s Big Lie
In a series of comments in late December, the Russian president appeared to blame Poland for the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Jerry Cooke / Corbis via Getty The False Romance of Russia
American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.
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Illustration: Mike McQuade; Janek Skarzynski / AFP / ... A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come
Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.
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Sergei Supinsky / Getty How Stalin Hid Ukraine's Famine From the World
In 1932 and 1933, millions died across the Soviet Union—and the foreign press corps helped cover up the catastrophe.
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Simon Prades Understanding Stalin
Russian archives reveal that he was no madman, but a very smart and implacably rational ideologue.
