USSR

Protests shake Iran: The US must choose its next move wisely - opinion

Tehran’s streets erupt with defiance. Will Washington support change or repeat past mistakes with Iran’s regime?

|ByYONI MICHANIE
FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2, 2022.
SOVIET WRITER-JOURNALIST Ilya Ehrenburg with Soviet soldiers, 1942. His daughter found a copy of the manuscript or ‘black book’ in her father’s archive in 1967. ‘The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry’ was published in Kiev in 1991.

Roots of the Holocaust: Fascist barbarism and vicious 1920s anti-Bolshevik propaganda - book review

Hitler and his minions combined hatred of Jews as racial aliens polluting German culture with a crusade against 'Judeo-Bolshevism,' allegedly poised to spread Soviet-style Communism across the world

|ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in Moscow after announcing that Khrushchev was resigning as first secretary of the Communist Party and Brezhnev was taking over the role, 1964.

The enigma of Nikita Khrushchev: Unravelling the Soviet leader's views on Israel, Zionism

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism

|ByALEX WINSTON
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV during a meeting with Kiev residents, after the liberation of the city from the Nazi occupation, Nov. 30, 1943.

Khrushchev and the Jews: The attitude of Stalin's successor to Soviet Jewry

Between Stalin’s shadow and the Cold War, the Soviet leader both perpetuated and decried Soviet antisemitism.

|ByALEX WINSTON

On This Day: 70 years since 13 Jews are killed in Night of Murdered Poets

The killing of Soviet Jewish poets was seen as a crackdown against the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee and part of Stalin's increasingly antisemitic policies before his death.

AUGUST 12, 2022ByAARON REICH
Albert Einstein (Middle) is seen standing between Yiddish poet Itzik Feffer and Russian Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels in 1943. Feffer would be killed in the Night of the Murdered Poets, while Mikhoels was killed in what may have been an assassination ordered by Joseph Stalin.

Fugitives: Cold War Nazi mercenaries who escaped justice - review

The US, USSR ‘forgave’ Nazi officials who could assist in Cold War spying conflict.

JULY 23, 2022ByCOLIN SHINDLER
MEMBERS OF Jewish organizations protest the sheltering of convicted Nazi criminal Alois Brunner by Syrian president Hafez Assad, 1998. The protest was near the Syrian Embassy in France, during a visit there by Assad.

Russia warns of 'non-diplomatic' response to Kaliningrad restrictions

The tensions come just weeks after a Russian politician called to stop recognizing Lithuania's independence.

JUNE 22, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE
Lithuanian Army soldiers hold Lithuanian and NATO flags during the celebration of the 15th anniversary of Lithuania's membership in NATO in Vilnius, Lithuania March 30, 2019.

Hailing Peter the Great, Putin draws parallel with mission to 'return' Russian lands

In televised comments on day 106 of his war in Ukraine, he compared Peter's campaign with the task facing Russia today.

JUNE 9, 2022ByREUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin watches a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2022.

Russian parliament questions Lithuania's independence with new bill

A Russian politician claimed the bill could be used to force NATO out of countries that joined the alliance after 1999.

JUNE 9, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE
Lithuanian Army soldiers hold Lithuanian and NATO flags during the celebration of the 15th anniversary of Lithuania's membership in NATO in Vilnius, Lithuania March 30, 2019.

Ukraine can happen in Israel too - opinion

If Ukraine had not surrendered its nuclear warheads, its situation now would be very different.

MARCH 22, 2022ByGIL TROY
A view shows service members of pro-Russian troops and tanks during Ukraine-Russia conflict on the outskirts of the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 20, 2022

My Jewish family fled Kyiv in 1989. My heart breaks for the city today.

That I had been born there at all was a function of knowing when to leave — and when to come back.

FEBRUARY 26, 2022ByMIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN/JTA
Mikhail Zinshteyn's family's exit visa from the USSR, and a favorite picture of him with his mother and sister taken in Kyiv.

Story of the underground Hebrew teachers of the USSR explored in book

The sages tell us that the Jewish people maintained three unique behaviors in Egypt: Their dress, their Hebrew names, and the Hebrew language.

JANUARY 13, 2022ByTOBY KLEIN GREENWALD
Anna Kholmyansky and baby Dora in 1988

Will Putin make Russia great again?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: For Russian President Vladimir Putin, the USSR’s downfall 'was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'

JANUARY 6, 2022ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen at a polling station in Moscow.

Svetlana Ladigin: An inspiring story of determination

Born in Ukraine, Svetlana made aliyah with her mother and maternal grandparents when she was three years old.

DECEMBER 16, 2021ByLISA SAMIN
Svetlana Ladigin, 26, From Ukraine to Haifa