Konstantin Kisin: communists have not thought through how a communist society would work.
Konstantin Kisin was brought up in the Soviet Union. His family experienced what it was really like.
Jung Chang says that a single word cannot describe how evil Mao was.
Jung Chang on Mao. She says that no single word is adequate to describe how evil he was. So she finds another way.
Konstantin Kisin: the worst people rise to the top under communism.
Konstantin Kisin was brought up in the Soviet Union. His family, like millions of others, was severely damaged by the regime.
The Soviet Union invaded Poland on 17th September 1939. Irena Godyń, 14, was there.
How many 14-year-old girls have taken part in vicious battles? Irena Godyń, currently approaching 100 years old (May 2026), did. She lived near Grodny, in what was then Poland. It was close to the border with the Soviet Union which invaded Poland in September, 1939. This is a clip taken from an interview with her which we will be publishing soon. The battle was just the beginning of her extraordinary experiences. She is one of only three people we have been able to interview who was sent to the Soviet Gulag – the forced labour prisons often in remote, freezing parts of the Soviet union. She survived but only just. Other members of her family did not.
Why do communist regimes always end up becoming terror states?
Wherever there have been communist regimes there has been terror. It happened in the Soviet Union, in China, in Romania and so on and on. Why? Konstantin Kisin was born in the Soviet Union and answers this question.
The Three Million Forgotten People: deportations from Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union, 1939-1953.
One of the biggest crimes of the 20th century is barely mentioned in textbooks about the Cold War. Why? Maybe it is because little information came out of Eastern Europe until 1990. And by then, the textbooks were written. But this was a massive event that reveals a lot about Stalin’s Soviet Union. And instead of always thinking about the Cold War, let’s remember those people were caught in the middle of it. We are fortunate to have obtained first-hand testimony of two of the women who were deported. Remember that these were the lucky ones – the ones who survived. But their lives were nevertheless scarred by suffering, tragedy and rejection. For what purpose? So Stalin and his communist regime could more easily dominate their countries.
When the USA and the Soviet Union were allies
When the USA and the Soviet Union were
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Konstantin Kisin: what the communists did to his family and why does communism always end in terror?
Konstantin Kisin was born in the Soviet Union. He describes the horrific experiences of his family any then answers the question, why does communism always end in terror?
Konstantin Kisin: what the communists did to his family and why does communism always end in terror?
Konstantin Kisin was born in the Soviet Union. He describes the horrific experiences of his family any then answers the question, why does communism always end in terror?
Solidarity (Solidarność)
The trade union that overthrew communist rule in Poland.