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Lenin-style Jan. 6 Committee Show Trial Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Lenin’s show trials and the Jan. 6 committee

By Newt Gingrich

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pelosi’s Stalinist propaganda trial

By Newt Gingrich

Russia War Crimes Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Russia dishonored by army’s Ukraine war crimes

By John O’Neill

FILE. In this file photo taken on Friday, April 6, 2018, Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev speaks to journalists outside a court room in the city of Petrozavodsk, northwestern Russia in Petrozavodsk. A court in Russia's region of Karelia on Wednesday, July 22, 2020 sentenced Dmitriyev to 3 and a half years in jail following on charges of molesting his stepdaughter, which rights groups described as fabricated. (AP Photo/Vladimir Larionov, File)

Russian activist who researched Stalin-era purges sentenced

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Actor/creator/executive producer Larry David speaks in the &quot;Curb Your Enthusiasm&quot; panel during the HBO Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Larry David compares Donald Trump to Stalin, says Bernie Sanders should drop out of White House race

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Demonstrators link hands as they gather along an elevated walkway in Hong Kong, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement created human chains on both sides of the city's harbor Friday, inspired by a historic protest 30 years ago in the Baltic states against Soviet control. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

What the Hong Kong protesters know

By David Keene

Julian Assange gestures as he arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, after the WikiLeaks founder was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody Thursday April 11, 2019. Police in London arrested WikiLeaks founder Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy Thursday for failing to surrender to the court in 2012, shortly after the South American nation revoked his asylum .(Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Assange, Stalin score high in Russian polls

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Thursday, June 21, 2018, Guzel Yakhina smiles during her interview to the Associated Press in Moscow, Russia. Yakhina's grandmother was a little girl when Soviet agents burst into her home and deported the whole family to the frozen woods of Siberia. Decades later, she shared those memories with her granddaughter, telling her of immense suffering and death, but also of resilience. (AP Photo/Maria Danilova)

Russian novel tells story of survival, love in Stalin’s camp

By MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

FILE - In this February 1948, file photo released by the North Korean government, Kim Il Sung attends the military parade celebrating the creation of the North Korean People's Army. Kim Il Sung, a former guerrilla who gained fame battling Japan’s colonial rule, established the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Sept. 9, 1948. The North’s first military parade occurred seven months earlier, on Feb. 8, 1948, when the country was under Soviet control. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

N. Korean military parades: Propaganda, intimidation, unity

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Illustration on Trump in history by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Donald Trump is no FDR, thank heaven

By Daniel Oliver

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, to travel to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Trump is beginning a two-day trip to California and St. Louis. Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday and said he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him, in a major staff reshuffle just as Trump dives into high-stakes talks with North Korea. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Reporters Without Borders ridiculously declares press has diminished freedom under Trump

By Larry O'Connor - The Washington Times

Putin's Russia Becomes a Wild Card Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Vladimir Putin, beyond Western tolerance

By Robert Charles

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Marshall Plan’ by Benn Steil

By Joseph C. Goulden

Russian police visit the Pioner movie theater in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. Pioner movie theater has been showing Scottish writer-director Armando Iannucci's &quot;The Death of Stalin&quot; since Thursday despite the Russian Culture Ministry's decision to rescind the permit for screening it. Police didn't declare the purpose of their visit to the theater Friday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

The Latest: Moscow theater cancels screenings of Stalin film

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Moscow movie theater shows Stalin film, defies official ban

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gorbachev’ by William Taubman

By Joseph C. Goulden

FILE - This is a Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015 file photo of Armando Iannucci, right, as he receives the award for outstanding comedy series &quot;Veep&quot; from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mel Brooks at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Russia's Culture Ministry on Tuesday Jan. 23, 2017 banned Armando Iannucci's satirical film about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's death two days before its scheduled release. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision, File AP)

Russia revokes permit for satire about Stalin’s death

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: How Stalin treated his inner circle

By Joseph C. Goulden

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Lenin’ by Victor Sebestyen

By Joseph Goulden

Students of a military-sponsored school attend the opening of a series of Russian leaders, including Vladimir Lenin, background right, and Josef Stalin, background center, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. The Russian Military-Historic Society, an organization founded by President Vladimir Putin and led by his culture minister, unveiled the sculptures Friday to expand its &quot;alley of rulers&quot; at a Moscow park, which until now had featured busts of Russian monarchs. It described the new display as part of efforts to preserve Russian history. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Stalin’s bust unveiled in Moscow as part of “Rulers’ Alley”

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press