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The Trump administration is seeking deals with more and more nations to hold deportees — now with the blessing of the Supreme ...
I lost all of mine in gulag.” When life was good Potashov went to Moscow in 1966 as a 17-year-old student, graduated as a mathematician from the Moscow Physics-Technical Institute and eventually ...
The Gulag became infamous for its association with suffering, murder, and terror, giving Siberia its reputation as a place of punishment. Although the Gulag system was abolished in 1957, ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. These days in Washington, D.C., among a class of Extremely Beltway types—the name-droppers, the strivers, the media gossips—Donald Trump’s threats to ...
Gulag has become a part of popular culture, not only in Russia, but all over the world. “Send him to gulag” is a popular insult on the internet. The Call of Duty: ...
The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of prisoners to the work camps of Stalin’s gulag. The ruins of that cruel era are still visible today.
The Gulag photo albums in the Russian State Archive are chock-full of pictures of prisoners with their camels. From Aktyubinsk to Yakutsk, ...
The Stalin-era Gulag camp Vorkutlag has been closed for nearly six decades. But the town that grew up around it in Russia's Arctic north remains a virtual prison for many of its residents.
Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and ...
The Gulag Archipelago was first printed in Paris in December 1973.The book landed, as Ignat describes it, like a "bomb," exploding all remaining arguments for the Marxism that had destroyed ...