His successors proclaimed a more liberal socialism. But was it ever real? By Owen Hatherley Mark B Smith’s Exit Stalin tells the history of a Soviet society largely without protest, without violent ...

The defeat of Nazi Germany secured Soviet survival but not relief from fear, repression, or sacrifice. This documentary examines what followed victory in 1945, from ...

Fear became a tool of government for millions of ordinary people. From the Tsarist Okhrana to the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB, secret police agencies shaped everyday life through surveillance and repression.

A man suffered fatal head injuries after falling from a ladder intoxicated, while tying a Union flag to a lamppost, an inquest heard. After watching a football match, Paul Lumber, 61, had gone to ...

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A man in his 60s suffered fatal head injuries after he fell from a ladder while tying a Union flag to a lamp post, an inquest has heard. Paul John Lumber, 61, a married painter and decorator from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Union Flags have been raised in Oxford. (Image: Elsie from the block) Oxfordshire County Council has issued a warning after Union ...

The leader of a major railway union posed with a communist flag and was pictured alongside people singing pro-Russia chants on a visit to occupied Ukraine, it has emerged. The general secretary of the ...

17:44, Mon, Jan 26, 2026 Updated: 17:46, Mon, Jan 26, 2026 A British council has blamed wet weather for having to remove flags hoisted on its patch. Oxfordshire County Council insisted that it takes ...

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Councillors in Bristol will discuss the future of England and Union Jack flags on lampposts across the city later this week, after a petition calling for them to be removed received enough signatures ...