Stalin
Photos De-Glorifying Stalin Inside His Own Museum
“I wanted to break this hero figure by focusing on these small, absurd details."
This City of Oil Rigs Is Collapsing Into the Caspian Sea
"Oil Rocks" is a Soviet-era Atlantis, built from 300 kilometres of rusting bridges.
We Spoke to Armando Iannucci About Stalin, Weinstein and Alan Partridge
Ahead of the release of his latest directorial feature, we talked to Armando Iannucci about Harvey Weinstein, Brexit, and Stalin.
What It Was Like to Work at a Russian Gulag
Ivan Chistyakov was living a modern life in the city, working as an engineer and checking out plays and movies. Then he got shipped off to Siberia.
A Visit to Europe’s Last Dictatorship
Ex-Soviet Belarus only began accepting visa-free tourists this year. I had to explore one of the hardest-drinking, most WWII-nostalgic countries on Earth.
Talking Art, Acid, and Architecture with Filmmaker Jonathan Meades
The British cultural icon talks about his new documentary 'Ben Building,' which looks at the architecture of fascist Italy.
This Journalist Spoke to Chechens Living in the Shadow of War
We spoke to French-English journalist Manon Loizeau, who recently went back to Chechnya years after the end of its devastating war to make a new documentary.
What Would Cities Look Like without Greedy Landlords and Property Development Sharks?
We interviewed Owen Hatherley, author of a book about what happens to architecture when you get rid of capitalists and real estate agents.
Jazz on Bones and X-Ray Audio: Chasing the Ghost of Soviet Russia's Most Dedicated Vinyl Bootlegger
How Soviet hipsters invented the first flexi discs...and were sent to the gulag for doing so.
VICE News Capsule - Wednesday, September 17
Ukrainian MP shoved into dumpster, Iraqi TV satirizes the Islamic State w Satan and Stalin, and more.
Crimea: March of the Tatars
Since the Tatars returned to Crimea during the fall of the Soviet Union, they've lived relatively peaceful lives under Ukrainian rule, but since Russia annexed Crimea, the community has worried that history may repeat itself.
No One Wants to Live in the Arctic City of Vorkuta Anymore
Ideas the local council has come up with in order to boost the town's profile have included a proposal to use the area for nuclear tests and restoring the gulag into a leisure park.