The communist regime shipped thousands of "enemies ... when Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev declared an amnesty for Gulag prisoners, in the post-Stalin "thaw". He stayed in Magadan, where ...

Here’s a look at some of the most shocking and pertinent testimonies from the very heart of the communist regime’s most terrifying place. The Soviet Gulag was likely the greatest slave labour system ...

days of Communist rule in the country. In Belene itself, many lower-level guards came from the village and a former mayor was also the gulag's first superintendent. It's not surprising that the ...

Most records relating to the gulag -- the brutal network of forced ... have been maintained and regularly used by hunters. Inside, the communist star of a Stalin-era coal range stays sizzling ...

Kolyma Gulag, USSR (Nikolai Nikitin ... unlikely to be contested by trade unionists and other devotees of the pre-Communist May 1 holiday. While I remain unpersuaded by their objections on ...

Rather than a glorification of the Communist dictator ... admitting the horror of the Gulag and mass repressions but insisting that the memory of these crimes should not overshadow Stalinism ...

He should be the first journalist sent to the gulag.” When The Independent asked Wren on Monday to comment on the post, she first texted three “rolling on the floor laughing” emojis ...