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This World [HaOlam HaZeh], Nov 7, 1962.Was Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, Known as Stalin, a Jew? It turns out that this question greatly troubled Adolf Hitler. This week, British journalist Sefton Delmer published his memoirs, revealing that Hitler's personal photographer had told him that Hitler had personally instructed him to inquire into the matter. The photographer was sent with the Nazi foreign minister to Moscow at the time of signing the famous Soviet-German agreement. Hitler told him: "Listen, I want you to get as close to Stalin as possible and take a picture of his earlobe. I want to know if...

President Vladimir Putin proceeded smoothly from inauguration on May 7 to overseeing a massive Soviet-style military parade on Red Square on May 9. Putin’s choice as Prime Minister, former president Dmitry Medvedev, was easily voted into office by the Duma. On Red Square, some 14,000 men in Soviet-style gold-glittering parade uniforms and most wearing peaked hats goose-stepped to the thrill of martial music produced by a 1,100-member joint military orchestra. Tanks, self-propelled guns, missiles and armored vehicles (over 100 pieces) rolled past Putin, flanked on the stand by Medvedev and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov (RIA Novosti, May 9). Putin’s speeches...

Hundreds held in Moscow anti-Putin protests By Helen Womack, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 11:54pm BST 14/04/2007 Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, was among about 200 people arrested yesterday as the Russian regime moved to stamp out the least sign of opposition to President Vladimir Putin. Thousands of riot police and interior ministry soldiers in camouflage battledress locked down the city centre to prevent a march by The Other Russia, a coalition of groups that accuse Mr Putin of dismantling democracy. Riot police detain former world chess champion Garry Kasparov at a protest in Moscow Trouble was clearly brewing...