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God's Commie: The ongoing achievement of Alexander Yakovlev.
This summer they were carrying out restoration work in the basement of the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, and discovered down there a number of skeletons from Stalin's day. In a courthouse. Imagine it. These were men and women on whom the death sentence had just been passed; they were hurried downstairs, shot in the back of the head, and shoved into a cellar to rot. Also this summer, workmen at the Vasilyansky monastery, near Zhovkva in Ukraine, happened to dig up 225 bodies of victims also shot in the back of the head. Acting on a survivor's tip, the Russians have also been digging on the Zhevsky artillery range, northeast of St. Petersburg. Tens of thousands of ...
- A Man of Parts.(Alexander Yakovlev)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Zuckerman, Mortimer B. December 26, 2005 700+ words
...good human being. It is now a few weeks since the death of Alexander Yakovlev. I was surprised that it went virtually unnoticed in the...million wrongfully accused citizens who were victims of Joseph Stalin's execution squads and concentration camps. Then he initiated...
- Secretary of Soviet Communist Party Central Committee interviewed in Beijing....
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 18, 1989 700+ words
...Press Agency today released the following interview with Alexander Yakovlev, member of the Politburo and secretary of the Soviet...write a book called 'Thirty Years and Three Days,'" Alexander Yakovlev, member of the Politburo and secretary of the Soviet...
- Gorbachev's visit to Cuba was a great success, says Communist Party Central...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 6, 1989 700+ words
...April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Member of the Politburo and Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee Alexander Yakovlev has given an interview to the Novosti Press Agency's special correspondents in Havana, Yuri Golovyatenko...
- Kremlin Committee on Stalin Probing Rival's 1934 Murder
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post David Remnick August 20, 1988 700+ words
...purges at all levels. Although Stalin himself bore the greatest...Zinoviev and other rivals of Stalin, who ruled from the late...Chebrikov, propaganda chief Alexander Yakovlev and two nonvoting members...been writing histories of the Stalin era for years, the assassination...
- Stalin denounced by Nikita Khrushchev.(February's Anniversaries)
- Magazine article from: History Today February 1, 2006 700+ words
...Consequences'. Khrushchev denounced Stalin, the cult of personality...false charges. He blamed Stalin for foreign policy errors...heard the speech was the young Alexander Yakovlev, later a leading architect...the Soviet Union had revered Stalin and linked their lives and...
- Dmitri Volkogonov: Colonel-General Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov, debunker of...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 16, 1995 700+ words
...Even if deeper doubts about Stalin begin to seep out in the decades...Gorbachev's reign, even Stalin had not been truly exposed...Gorbachev's glas-nost guru, Alexander Yakovlev, helped arrange for a one...produce a candid biography of Stalin. This was followed by the...
- Stalin-Hitler pact papers displayed
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ANDREW HIGGINS in Moscow February 25, 1995 700+ words
...first time since Hitler and Stalin carved up Eastern Europe in...has long been known about Stalin's dealings with Hitler before...to the Soviet parliament, Alexander Yakovlev, an aide to Mr Gorbachev...divided Poland, signed by Stalin in blue crayon, and by Hitler...
- Soviet Historian Blames Cold War Start on Stalin
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Michael Dobbs March 3, 1989 700+ words
...conduct of foreign policy. Stalin's 30-year rule saw a significant...western public opinion to equate Stalin's Soviet Union with Adolf...ultimate justification for Stalin's repressive regime, in...this week by Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev, President Mikhail Gorbachev...
Source: HighBeam Research, God's Commie: The ongoing achievement of Alexander Yakovlev.