After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...

As many as 24 prisoners were freed as part of one of the biggest prisoner swap between Russia and the United States since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russian President Vladimir Putin (L ...

The date when the Auschwitz prisoners were liberated is particularly important for Russia: it was Soviet soldiers who liberated the death camp — Auschwitz , on January 27, 1945; in many ...

Multiple former prisoners of the Soviet Union's communist regime have written a letter addressing the recent meeting between ...

From 1947 until 1953, tens of thousands of prisoners, many of them “politicals” convicted for “anti-Soviet acts,” were shipped to northern Russia to lay a railroad through some of the ...

Gary Saul Morson speculates that “Hitler might well have won [his war against the Soviet Union] had he abolished ... to propagandize among other prisoners and eventually to recruit thousands ...