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TopicJoseph Stalin

Topic: Joseph Stalin

Trump wants a new Yalta to assert American hegemony. History shows this grand plan will likely fail

US president's hopes that superpowers can collaborate to run the world together is a fantasy, not a policy.

21st-century Stalin? Why Ukraine invasion has spawned comparisons between Putin & Soviet despot

Apart from language, observers have noted other similarities between Putin and Stalin: creation of a cult of fear, and restrictions on free speech and free association.

Modi govt sent back Dubai princess but Indira’s India didn’t deport Stalin’s daughter

Back in the late 1960s, India had ‘turned a blind eye’ as Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva fled to the US.

On Camera

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.