Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

After the death of Alexei Navalny, a Russian human rights lawyer says Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza is now "prisoner ...

Soviet forces carried out indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas and committed numerous atrocities against Finnish civilians and prisoners of war.

As the prisoners were led back to the stadium ... Indira Gandhi of India and Harold Wilson of Great Britain lobbied the Soviet Union to restrain the North Vietnamese. United Nations Secretary ...

The German command decides to train its tankers using captured Soviet military equipment. Soviet POWs are given a T-34-85 tank and sent to a training ground, where they will serve as targets.

The city of Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia), has a medieval historic center where the local cemetery is ...

A piece of Holocaust history — a Nazi concentration camp built on Alderney, a British island — has been largely forgotten.

View image in fullscreen An exhibition presenting prisoners’ shoes found at the ... Poles under the yokes of Nazi Germany and then the Soviet Union, Kwiatkowksi said there was “no excuse ...

These include a large menorah, newly built synagogue and a monument honouring the Soviet citizens and prisoners of war who died, which is located closest to the TV tower. A museum building which ...

A cloth harness used to move heavy stones in the quarry where prisoners were forced to work ... in perhaps the most loyal to Moscow of all the Soviet satellites, is finally changing as Bulgaria ...

It first held political prisoners, but later also forced laborers, Soviet POWs, Jews, and other "undesirables." More than 30,000 deaths were documented there, with many more unrecorded. In the midst ...