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 ...
Lyudmila PavlichenkoTo read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to ...
From 1942 onward, the NKVD developed rigorous systems to identify and separate Waffen SS prisoners from regular German soldiers. Seen as ideological threats rather than mere POWs, SS men were held in ...
Former national security adviser John Bolton compared Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, to one of the former Soviet Union’s most feared secret police chiefs, Lavrentiy Beria ...
Mikhail Gorbatchev knew this better than most. In his landmark Murmansk speech in October 1987, the General Secretary called for the Arctic as a "zone of peace". The policy included establishing a ...
The Soviet Union’s all-embracing police system had its origin about 35 years ago as an extraordinary emergency commission, called the Cheka, to combat sabotage and counter-revolutionary activities, In ...
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