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The birthplace of Armin Mueller-Stahl in Tilsit (now Sovetsk), which has been a listed building since 2010. Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). His mother, Editta, was from an upper-class family and became a university professor in Leipzig. His father, Alfred Müller, was a bank teller who ...
The Stalinist execution list of July 26, 1938 was signed during the Great Purge of the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov. Notable people on list (in Russian alphabetical order) [ edit ]
After Stalin's death, Patriarch Alexy I composed a personal statement of condolence to the Soviet Council of Ministers: "His death is a heavy grief for our Fatherland and for all the people who inhabit it. The whole Russian Orthodox Church, which will never forget his benevolent attitude to Church needs, feels great sorrow at his death.
Joseph Stalin's purges and massacres between 1936 and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany (Great Purge) had about one million victims. This list includes some of the most prominent victims along with the date of their deaths. Except where otherwise stated, the date is that on which the individual was executed by shooting.
Unlike his later curt agreement with execution requests, Stalin only agreed with the execution of two people among a total of twenty-six people whose death was demanded. One was Mikhail Cherniavsky and the other was Alexei Sinelobov, a deputy commandant of the Kremlin, whose sentence was later commuted to 10 years' imprisonment.
Stalin “killed systematically rather than episodically,” the Stanford historian Norman Naimark has observed. An elderly woman passes a house shelled by Russians in the village of Krasylivka ...
Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin's regime were 20 million or higher. [5] [6] [7] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives was declassified and researchers were allowed to study it.
Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95. Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in ...