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He was poisoned in a sushi bar in London in 2006. Traces of polonium-210 were found in his body. In a farewell letter, Litvinenko accused President Vladimir Putin of being behind the attack on his life. Litvinenko was critical of the Putin regime and accused the FSB of being behind the 1999 attacks in Russia. He died on 23 November 2006. [22]
Trotsky controversially suggested that Stalin had poisoned V.I. Lenin, seen here with Stalin recuperating from a stroke in the city of Gorky. Stalin begins with an unfinished introduction where Trotsky attempts to prove his objectivity in relation to the events in the rest of the book, however was never finished due to his assassination. [12]
The assertion that Stalin was poisoned by Beria's associates has been supported by Edvard Radzinsky and other authors. [57] From 1939 to 1953, the Soviet Poison Laboratory was under the direct supervision of Beria and his deputy Vsevolod Merkulov [citation needed]. [61] [page needed] According to Radzinsky, Stalin was poisoned by a senior ...
Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October Revolution.It culminated during the Stalin era, then declined, but it continued to exist during the "Khrushchev Thaw", followed by increased persecution of Soviet dissidents during the Brezhnev era, and it did not cease to exist until late ...
Boynton Beach writer Mark Schneider shows commonalities between Russia's Putin and America's Christian right wing.
Three sources close to him have told The Daily Beast that they believe he was poisoned.Two friends and a relative of Jean Sinclair Maka Gbossokotto say the late journalist told associates he was ...
Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (Russian: "Чистка партийных рядов", chistka partiynykh ryadov, "cleansing of the party ranks") were Soviet political events, especially during the 1920s, [1] in which periodic reviews of members of the Communist Party were conducted by other members and the security organs to get rid of "undesirables". [2]
They were banned under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin but commonplace under later Kremlin leaders. Now, after less than a century, official attitudes about abortion in Russia are changing once again.