Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye angered many countries with his televised remark that the ex-Soviet Union countries did not have sovereign status. However, this seemingly inadvertent remark reveals a deep-seated fear the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has had for the last three decades—that the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and demise of the…

The man who flew over the Iron Curtain to escape communist Czechoslovakia in 1984 came to America, but delivered the biggest political irony when he fled the blue state of California in 2017, seeking a more libertarian lifestyle in the middle of the Utah desert. Today, Ivo Zdarsky, 62, jokes that if he had to…

Through his lens, Dutch photographer Roman Robroek, 34, has captured the forgotten splendor of once-glorious abandoned buildings, offering us temporal insight into our present and future. For a dozen years, Robroek has toured hordes of abandoned sites across Europe—everywhere from old Soviet power stations, to decaying Italian chapels, and even deserted homes near the bomb…

Authorities in Latvia began dismantling a Soviet-era monument in the capital city of Riga on Tuesday after the country’s government agreed that communist monuments in public spaces should be removed. The statue, which commemorates the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany, was erected in 1985 and stands like a high-rise in downtown Riga’s Victory Park. It has been…

Estonia is to remove all of its Soviet-era war monuments, the latest in a line of eastern European countries to go down this path. There are reportedly 200 to 400 Soviet-era memorials or monuments still standing across Estonia. The prime minister, Kaja Kallas, said these would now be relocated “as quickly as possible”, adding: “It is clear…

Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that natural gas exports outside former Soviet Union countries fell by 28.5 percent year on year to 30.7 billion cubic meters (bcm) in the period from Jan. 1 to March 15. It also said that its gas output for that period stood at 111.5 bcm, broadly unchanged from…

The United States and its European allies must not build any bases in the former Soviet Union or use those countries for military purposes, warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday. Lavrov, quoted by Russian state-run news agencies RIA and TASS, said the Kremlin found it unacceptable that some European nations are hosting U.S….

Communism manifests in many ways. It’s been tried and tried again, and failed—yet it’s never ceased to appeal to some. Education has been co-opted to bring about the next generation of so-called “revolutionaries” around the world. So how exactly has this failed system appeared again and again—especially today, in the form of critical race theory…

MOSCOW—A former U.S. Marine who is serving a nine-year sentence in Russia was being transferred from a remand cell in Moscow on Friday to the Mordovia region which has a large number of tough, Soviet-era prisons. Trevor Reed was convicted last year of endangering the lives of two policemen in Moscow while drunk, a charge…

BERLIN—David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died. He was 98. The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria said Sunday that Dushman had died at a Munich hospital on Saturday. “Every witness to history who passes on is a loss, but saying…