Eduard Andryushchenko is a historian and a freelance correspondent for Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
Russian officials, including Vladimir Putin, have justified the war in Ukraine with dubious historical claims that Ukraine is not a “real country.” Historians in Ukraine are now fighting – literally and figuratively – against what they say is Russia’s effort to “destroy Ukrainian identity.”
The lives destroyed by an optical illusion published during Stalin’s Great Terror.
Lenin. Trotsky. Gorky. When Russia's revolutionary A-listers were conjured up from the dead by a group of Soviet spiritists, the secret police took notice.
A newly declassified 1979 memo gives intriguing details about the Ukrainian KGB's efforts to thwart a "plot by Western security agencies" to undermine the Soviet Union by importing subversive literature into the country under the framework of the 1975 Helsinki Accords.
Newly declassified documents from the KGB archive in Ukraine shed light on how one leg of a 1947 journey to the Soviet Union by U.S. writer John Steinbeck and noted war photojournalist Robert Capa went down.
