We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced ...

This summer, Tana Ganeva traveled to Belene, Bulgaria's most notorious prison camp, where her grandfather was held in the 1950s. Bulgaria has effectively buried the history of its Communist-era gulags ...

Police states spread complicity by forcing citizens into immoral roles. With "The Day Will Pass Away," readers get a remarkable opportunity to peek into the 1930s diary of one such citizen — Ivan ...

“Let's go, move, move, move!” the commander said, and Yevgeny Makarov yelled in pain as two prison guards resumed beating his legs with batons while others held him down. As the handcuffed, naked man ...

NAUJASODES, Lithuania (Reuters Life!) - Young Europeans have been experiencing a taste of the brutal life in a Soviet prison camp in the Baltic state of Lithuania. Students from Italy, Poland and ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians who leave the country and support Ukraine should be sent to a far eastern region known for its Stalin-era Gulag prison camps if they ever return home, according to the ...