“…Having lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union, this generation had to reevaluate the values and life goals that seemed absolute to the generation of the fathers, but which were suddenly rendered osbolete by the changing realities of the post-1991 Russia. …”

“…This short stresses Oswald’s professed belief in Marxism, his brief stay in the Soviet Union, and his return to New Orleans as spokesman for the pro-Castro "Fair Play for Cuba Committee." …”

“…In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. …”

“…It is a documentary about the youngest victims of the repressions carried out by the Soviet Union during the Second World War, the children and teenagers deported to Soviet Siberia and Kazakhstan. …”

“…In 1932, Joris Ivens was invited to make a film about the building of the Soviet Union. He chose Magnitogorsk as an example of how the new world and the new man were to be forged, and the resulting film, Song of the heroes, encapsulates the prevailing ideology of the period. …”

“…But what about their mind and soul, which somehow cannot be convinced that life in the Soviet Union is the epitome of happiness? You don't like the system? …”

“…Khatyn, Chatyń (Belarusian and Russian: Хаты́нь) is a village in Belarus, all of whose 149 inhabitants were burnt alive by the Nazis, with participation of Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators from the 118th Schutzmannschaft battalion in 1943. In the Soviet Union, Khatyn became a symbol of mass killings of the civilian population. …”

“…In the Polish town of Piatek, someone swears that the center has somehow disappeared, while in Lithuania's "Europos Centro" near Vilnius, one family sees Europe as a "monster" and the downfall of the Soviet Union as their worst misfortune. In the Western Ukrainian town of Rachiv we run into the last remaining Hasid who is buying the newspaper "Center of Europe." …”

“…In 1961, Enver Hodja broke off Albania’s relations with the Soviet Union. Albanian men married to foreign women were forced by the state to split from their wives who were subsequently expelled.The official reason was alleged espionage. …”

“…Once a socialist industrial shop-window, Videoton used to be showered with state awards and military commissions, many of them coming from the Soviet Union. In 1987, 12 billion forints were invested to upgrade its research and development department. …”

“…A ficticious and tedious story telling more of historical revisionsim in early 21st century than of the situation in the GULAG or the Soviet Union during the 1940s.…”

“…After the Second World War, Stalin deported the German population and the area was settled by people from all over the Soviet Union. Director Volker Koepp tells the stories of children from the third generation of these new residents. …”

“…That this journey takes the film crew as far East as Ukraine should speak volumes of not only the uncertain legacy left by the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but the even more uncertain one beginning in the era of the European Union.…”

“…Soros Documentary Fund With a population of 25 million spilling across the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and the former Soviet Union, the Kurds have maintained their way of life for more than 2,000 years, despite attempts by various empires and nation states to eradicate their culture. …”

“…Svetlana Gannushkina, Chairman of the Committee "Civil Assistance" and a Board Member of Memorial Human Rights Center, has also worked with Anna helping fugitives and emigrants from the former Soviet Union republics. Vyacheslav Izmailov, another colleague of Anna from Novaya Gazeta, started his own investigations, trying to find out who killed Anna.…”

“…In 1937 the Westerners were presented with a choice: become citizens or leave the Soviet Union. For the first time, this film reveals the fate of the architects who stayed, as well as those who left and kept silent for six decades. …”