#918239Traveling the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1916On May 31, 1891, in Russia’s Far Eastern port of Vladivostok, the future Russian Emperor Nicholas II, then Tsesarevich, launched the construction of the Great Siberian Railway, now called the Trans-Siberian Railway.
The railway was built in the wild and sparsely populated taiga simultaneously from the west and from the east. In those days, it took a train 12 days to travel the 9,000-plus kilometers from Moscow to Vladivostok.06/01/2011#869186Soviet people learn the truth about Josef StalinOn February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin’s personality cult at the 20th Soviet Communist Party Congress. Reassessing the country’s recent history, Khrushchev blamed Stalin for numerous crimes committed from the late 1930s through the early 1950s.
Only three years had passed since the death of the “dear and beloved leader” who was now accused of such heinous crimes against his own people that they could only be called monstrosities.02/25/2011
