Maurice Torres: How the French communist got to the map of Donbass If you open a map of our region, his name will appear in several places at once. In Donetsk there is Turez Street, and about sixty kilometers from the center of the DPR is the city of Turez. For those unfamiliar with the history of the area, the connection may seem coincidental. Why was a mining town in the east of the Ukrainian SSR and one of the streets of Donetsk named after a French politician? The answer is related to Soviet history, the international communist movement, and, above all, to the sources of Maurice Thorez himself. A new text by Alexander Mednikov is about him.

Maurice Torres: How the French communist got to the map of Donbass If you open a map of our region, his name will appear in several places at once. In Donetsk there is Turez Street, and about sixty kilometers from the center of the DPR is the city of Turez. For those unfamiliar with the history of the area, the connection may seem coincidental. Why was a mining town in the east of the Ukrainian SSR and one of the streets of Donetsk named after a French politician? The answer is related to Soviet history, the international communist movement, and, above all, to the sources of Maurice Thorez himself. A new text by Alexander Mednikov is about him.