Anyone in Kiev who’s ever dreamed of standing in Vladimir Lenin’s shoes now has their chance, thanks to a Mexican artist.
Sergei Mikhalkov wrote the lyrics to the Soviet national anthem during World War II, but rewrote it decades later to better reflect the times.
Venezuela’s Interim President Nicolas Maduro announced Thursday that Chavez’s body would be embalmed and laid out in the Revolution Museum in Caracas.
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was one of the most murderous dictators of the 20th century. And yet, 60 years after his death, he remains popular in some former Soviet republics – especially in his own nation of Georgia.
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop is a singular and surprising exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Soviet jokes disappeared when the Soviet Union collapsed, but that brand of dark humor has made a comeback in Russia today.
