Sukhanovskaya Prison, also known as Sukhanovka or Special Facility No.110 existed between 1938 and 1952. In 1938, on the orders of the NKVD [forerunner of the KGB and FSB] a secret detention centre ...
Andrei Zhukov praised by activists for singlehandedly identifying every NKVD officer involved in 1930s arrests and killings For two decades, starting in 1993, Andrei Zhukov went down into a Moscow ...
On October 1, 1937, as Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's brutal purge raged, a brilliant, one-handed Russian linguist penned a complaint from Moscow's notorious Butyrka prison about his treatment by the ...
The tragedy of Stalin’s purges still looms large over Russian society. Online users are busy debating whether a young man from Tomsk was in the right when he decided to find out who was responsible ...
ONE WHO SURVIVED—The Life Story of a Russian under the Soviets—Alexander Barmine—Putnam ($3.75). Whoever else buys this book, one copy will almost certainly be bought by the NKVD, Russia’s secret ...
A Moscow restaurant calling itself "NKVD" - a chilling echo of the Stalin-era communist terror - drew social media protests and the big sign outside has now been ...
Tamara Grechukhina was 15 years old in 1938 when her father was locked up by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's secret police. Soon afterward, her mother died of tuberculosis. The family's property was ...
In one of the boldest ruses of the war, Germany's Brandenburgers didn't just wear Soviet uniforms—they impersonated the dreaded NKVD. This gave them the power to issue orders, dismantle defenses, and ...
The 18th of July, 1942, was a hot summer day in Krasnodar, a city in the Russian Caucasus, near the Black Sea. On that day, as my grandfather Mark Nikolaevich Medish was taking a Sunday afternoon ...
After a social media storm the restaurant no longer had the name "NKVD" on the wall A Moscow restaurant calling itself "NKVD" - a chilling echo of the Stalin-era ...
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