Stalin's incompetence and the impunity associated with absolute power cost the country dearly and led to huge losses in the war. Continuation. Start: Loser Stalin , USSR , Holodomor , Comintern . We had so much outright idiocy in the pre-war years and during World War II that a person who believes in conspiracy theories should probably recognize Stalin as a German saboteur, secretly infiltrated into the Soviet leadership in order to destroy the country.

The Russian Orthodox Church took under protection the only exhibit of the Mausoleum, monuments to Ilyich and Soviet street names. A week ago, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCOR) proposed removing Lenin from the Mausoleum and demolishing the Ilyichs throughout Russia.

On March 24, the next hearings on the Kurgalsky nature reserve will be held in Kingisepp. The notice of the hearings in the Vostochny Bereg newspaper says that they are being held “in order to expand the territory” of the Kurgalsky nature reserve.