At the Victory Day parade in Moscow on 9 May, former NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the interior ministry of the Soviet Union – ed.) and KGB officers who did not fight during World ...

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 ...

Prosecutor Osinski took part in an international conference devoted to the so-called Polish Operation of the NKVD in 1937-1938 (see: NOTE) and organised at Warsaw's Belvedere Palace. The event was ...

This article by Alisa Selezneva was originally published in Russian in Holod Magazine on February 19, 2025. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with ...

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 ...