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The Judeo-Bolshevist Target

Omer Bartov The New York Review of Books
Popular memory in the West tends to separate the Holocaust from the German war against the Soviet Union, but for the Nazi regime they were two faces of the same undertaking.

This Week in People’s History, Jun 3–9, 2026

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Anti-nuke demonstrators pulling down a fence at the Shoreham construction site On the Way to a Major People’s Victory (1979), An Ideological Earthquake (1956), The Novelist Who Started the Civil War, Sort Of (1851), Standing Up for Civil Rights Isn’t Easy (1966), Municipal Workers Flex Their Muscles, But It Doesn’t Help (1971)

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The Kremlin Letters

Jonathan Steele The Guardian
This newly published edition of this exchange of letters between the leaders of the three major countries of the anti-fascist alliance sheds new light on an almost forgotten aspect of the World War II years.

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“The Death of Stalin” Captures the Terrifying Absurdity of a Tyrant

Masha Gessen The New Yorker
In January Russia banned “The Death of Stalin". This may have been the first time in post-Soviet history a movie that had already been granted permission to screen was pulled from theatres by order of the government. What made the film so dangerous?
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