Stalin
The Toxic Uzbek Town and Its Museum of Banned Soviet Art
Once a thriving agricultural center, Karakalpakstan is now one of the sickest places on Earth.
A Visit to Moscow's Brain Institute
The Brain Institute, which was founded by the Bolsheviks in 1928 as part of the effort to canonize Lenin, has a "Pantheon of Brains"—the brains of Sergei Eisenstein, Stalin, and Lenin himself are displayed in glass cases inside the Institute's pre...
Hitler Madness: The Tournament to Officially Determine the Most Hitlerish Person of All Time
People are accused of being like Adolf Hitler all the time, and occasionally their behavior is at least Hitler-ish, like when they're invading countries or advocating genocide. But who in world history is the most like Hitler? Well, that...
Weiner’s Dong, and Other Products of the Perfected Civilization
I am wholly in favor of anyone wishing to promote his or her genitals on Facebook or Instagram being able to do so.
Stalin Built the World's First Offshore Oil Rig Into an Entire Floating City
Today, Neft Daslari is a crumbling dystopia, a vast series of oil platforms slowly being eaten by the waves of the Caspian Sea. Like all good dystopias, it was once an industrial marvel—a veritable floating oil city, home to 5,000 workers, a movie...