Deadly 'lawnmowers' in the sky... Electricity 4 hours a day... A people that won't give up

The world is focused on the West Asia war. So partly are Ukrainians, who have endured the sound and pain of war for four ...
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Stalin's great purge | The great terror (1932-1940)

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" and the leadership of the Red Army. This was done through three show trials ...
The New York Times

From 1966: Anna Akhmatova, Leading Soviet Poet, Is Dead

A towering figure in Soviet literature, she was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge. By Special to The New York Times This obituary was originally published on March 6, 1966. It is being ...

‘The School Duel’ Trailer: Indie ‘Hunger Games’ Meets ‘The Purge’ in a Dystopian Florida Without Gun Control

Watch the trailer for Todd Wiseman Jr.'s debut 'The School Duel,' which merges an indie 'Hunger Games' riif with 'The Purge' in dystopian Florida.
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Roy Medvedev, Soviet dissident historian who exposed Stalin’s brutality but later endorsed Putin

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roy Medvedev: the KGB harassed him for decades over his ‘slanderous political scribblings’ - Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty ...
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In Xi’s Purge of the Military, a Search for Absolute Loyalty

When Xi Jinping rang in the new year from Beijing, he called on China to remember the legacy of Yan’an, the rural stronghold where Mao Zedong transformed revolutionary guerrilla fighters into a ...
The Hollywood Reporter

How PBS Kids Hopes to Save Children’s Programming

A leading exec at the public broadcasting institution breaks down the impact of recent government cuts and what to do about them By Abbey White Associate Editor & News Writer In May 1969, Fred ...
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CIA pitches Chinese military officers on helping the US in new video, amid officer purge in China

The CIA is ramping up its efforts to recruit Chinese spies by releasing a new Mandarin-language video on Thursday that appeals directly to the country’s military officers who may be disillusioned with ...
Newsweek

China’s Xi Celebrates Recent Military Purges

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has appeared to celebrate a series of political purges that he ordered that have roiled the People's Liberation Army, as China's military media heaped him with high accolades ...
CNN

Scale of Xi’s military purges could hinder China’s ability to fight, says think tank

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has taken his purge of the country’s military to the very top, targeting his highest-ranked general in a stunning move last month. But Xi’s shake-up cuts across a much wider ...
The New Yorker

What Does Xi Jinping Want?

Over the past few years, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, has removed dozens of senior military officials from their roles. Last month, he put Zhang Youxia, then the top-ranking official in the ...