Jubilee overview of the hottest and most subversive anti-war news in the 13th month of big war in Ukraine. The title photo came from the town of Alexandrov in the Vladimir region, where someone had adorned the entrance of a Z-volunteer center with bloody paint and the words "Killers" written on it.
Robyn Dixon10:14, May 10 2021
Courtesy of Denis Karagodin
Stepan Karagodin, centre, was a prosperous peasant farmer and village leader who resisted the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution.
As cold cases go, Denis Karagodin s mission was as bleak as the winter in his native Siberia. For nine years, he has been digging into Russian and Soviet archives to find out who killed his great-grandfather Stepan Karagodin in 1938, during the purges and iron-fist rule of Joseph Stalin. The Karagodin family had long believed that Stepan, a peasant farmer, died of tuberculosis in a Soviet prison camp in 1943, serving time for anti-Soviet activities. Karagodin uncovered the real story bit by bit: Stepan was shot by Stalin s secret police five years earlier on the false charge that he was spying for Japan. He was posthumously exonerated in the 1950s.