#USSR

A Ukrainian-born Holocaust survivor was among those killed in a deadly antisemitic attack during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Australian authorities and media confirmed.

When was slavery abolished in your country? The Soviet Union’s myth was one of promised equality and progress. Yet millions lived as state-bound peasants—for them, serfdom was reintroduced and didn’t truly end until the 1970s.

Decades before Russian missiles rained on Ukraine, Moscow had already pulled off a quieter heist: seizing tens of billions in Soviet assets that rightfully belonged to Kyiv.