MOSCOW (AP) — Sergei Mikhalkov, an author favored by Stalin who wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems, persecuted dissident writers as part of the Soviet propaganda machine and ...
M O S C O W, Nov. 30 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Russians to hum Stalin’s old anthem in the new millennium, but to sing of a flying Russian eagle instead of an “unbreakable” Soviet Union ...
A Metropolitan Opera singer received death threats after she was mistaken for another Chinese soprano who sang a Soviet Union anthem in the ruins of a Ukrainian theater where hundreds were killed by ...
Recent photos show Russia's Soviet past becoming mainstreamed as a rallying point for invading troops in Ukraine as the Kremlin's objectives become increasingly vague. The above image is the latest of ...