On May 9, 1945, the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany marked the final and decisive end of World War II in Europe. Known in Russia and other former Soviet republics as Victory Day, the date commemorates the unconditional surrender of German forces. Following intense and bloody battles, Soviet troops captured the German capital after […]

The US Friends of the Soviet People will be holding its annual webinar on Friday, May 9th from 7pm EST to 8pm EST. The event will be a showing of remarks given by friends of USFSP on the significance of May 9th and reflect on how the Soviet Union through rapid industrialization was able to

On April 22, 2025, the 155th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is celebrated on all continents. A great thinker and fearless revolutionary, a truly popular leader and wise statesman, an ardent internationalist and a champion of the brotherhood of people of all nationalities – this is how he entered world history. Lenin

Even though the liberation of large territories by the military forces of the anti-Hitler coalition from the fascist occupiers had already brought impressive successes in 1944, January 27, 1945 remains a symbolic date. For many years now, January 27 has been observed worldwide as the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust,

The Donetsk airport, rebuilt for Euro 2012, became, without exaggeration, a calling card not only for the region, but for all of Ukraine. It immediately entered the top three largest in the country and was capable of receiving even such giant aircraft as the An-225 Mriya. Its runway was 4 km long and over 60

Originally published by the Russian Communist Workers Party (RCWP-CPSU) In 2025, it will be 120 years since the day that forever entered the history of our country. The first Russian revolution began in the strike on St. Petersburg on January 9, 1905, when the tsarist troops shot at a peaceful demonstration of gullible workers. The

This video describes how the Soviet Union used their banking system to fund various industries and what the overall structure of the Socialist Republic’s financial institutions were like. The Soviet Union, through the implementation of each respective five year plan, was able to allocate resources to industries based on need and growing technology at the

The FIR follows with great concern the military escalation in the Ukraine war in recent days. In view of 1000 days of war in Ukraine, FIR believes that it is urgently necessary in the interests of the people in the war zone to agree a ceasefire and begin negotiations. The telephone conversation between German Chancellor

Letter to Workers World from Mikhail Kononovich and Alexander Kononovich. Translation by Steve Gillis. Dear comrades, We would like to first draw your attention, comrades, to the fact that we, communists and anti-fascists, brothers Mikhail Kononovich and Alexander Kononovich, were arrested for our many years of “Komsomol [Communist Youth League] for Peace” actions, which we

On April 3, 2011, Professor Grover Furr gave a talk on his book “Khrushchev Lied”. In this book, Dr. Furr proves the falsity of each of Khrushchev’s accusations against Comrade Stalin made in his “Secret Speech” to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956.