“Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, government, cultural, political and other public activity.”

The fact that homosexuality was criminally sanctioned under Soviet law is something that is often thrown in the face of communists in general, and used to “discredit” Comrade Stalin in particular.

Why do his critics almost universally behave in this manner? The answer is simply: because they can’t refute anything he says.

Those with more nuanced perspectives on the Soviet experience often have not considered it worthy of their time to breakdown and critique the unbelievable myriad of bourgeois media hit­jobs regarding Joseph Stalin, the “biography of a monster” has become a veritable genre unto its own which has two historic trends: The tendency to further and further emphasize Stalin’s personality and character to explain what transpired, and to exponentially increase the number of alleged victims with every account.

In recent years, Victory Day has unfortunately acquired a not very pleasant tradition: the closer the holiday comes, the more do all sorts of “researchers” begin to broadcast the myth of “raped Germany.”

Having the opportunity to live both the socialist system in the USSR and Western Europe's capitalism, Zinoviev made a u-turn in his thoughts after the counterrevolutionary events in the Soviet Union (1989-1991). He profoundly regreted for his previous anti-soviet stance and even asked from the Russian people to forgive him for that.

The personality and the writings of Leon Trotsky have long been a rallying point for anticommunists throughout the world. But during the 1930s Trotsky deliberately lied in his writings about Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. My new book, Trotsky’s ‘Amalgams’, discusses some of Trotsky’s lies that have fooled people, and demoralized honest communists, for decades.