Joseph Stalin

We Greeks owe a lot to the Percentages Agreement signed in Moscow in 1944 between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, which decreed that the West would have 90 percent of the say in what happened in Greece and the Soviet Union just 10 percent.

Eerie images of former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin’s summer home show the extensive lengths he went to to hide away from the public while on holiday.
Hidden deep in a forest off of Lake Ritsa in Abkhazia, an autonomous region of Georgia – the modest property is hard to find.

BELGRADE - An illiterate peasant, Mitar Tarabic, who lived in Serbia in the 19th century is believed to have predicted major historic events, like WWI and the rise of Nazis.

By a simple twist of fate, the prime ministers across the most beautiful sea in the world can be mentioned in a future edition of author Bill Fawcett?s popular book, ?Trust Me, I Know What I?m Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today.?

Two of Russia?s most iconic historical figures came to blows close to Moscow?s Red Square when a Stalin double allegedly attacked a Lenin lookalike over a work dispute, police said on July 7. 

For many years, attempts at finding the photo of Apollinariya Yakubova, the woman considered by many historians as Lenin’s true love, proved futile.

The face of the woman that Lenin seems to have fallen in love with while he lived in London used to be unknown until recently.

AGERPRES special correspondent Catalin Alexandru reports: President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday started his official visit to Kiev with a visit to the Holodomor Museum and a solemn moment spent at the triptych placed on the spot where the first people fell victims of the Revolution that led to the removal of the Yanukovych regime.

Photo credit: (c) Alex MICSIK / AGERPRES PHOTO

Russia on Feb. 5 defied anger by unveiling a controversial monument to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Britain's Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt at their fateful meeting in Crimea in 1945.
      

The historic year 1989 is the year in which the peoples in Central and Eastern Europe took the step towards the free world, Senate Chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu told a solemn sitting of the Parliament on Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the December 1989 Revolution that toppled the communist rule.

A Red Army officer who fought for the French Resistance before being sent to the Gulag by Soviet authorities has died aged 95, officials said on Dec. 8.

Nikolai Vasenin died a few months after learning that the French love he lost 70 years ago had also passed away.