This programme was broadcast to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (1878-1953). During 25 years of terror and tyranny, from 1927 until his death, […]
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Eric Beauchemin visits the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan in Central Asia. It has been independent since 1991, but a civil war has devastated most of the new country’s infrastructure. […]
In 1988, 20 years after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Jonathan Marks uses recordings from Radio Prague to tell the story of how the liberator (the Russians in 1945) became […]