Tag Archives: gulag

These days, there are no late-night knocks on the door signaling the deportation of some unfortunate ‘comrade’ to a penal colony on the outskirts of the empire for the crime of ‘wrongthink’.  The overlords of Silicon Valley have effectively streamlined brutal totalitarian techniques, concealing the iron fist of repression inside …

The global historic figure Julian Assange, the greatest journalist and publisher of our age, will not be extradited to the gulag of the American injustice system. Sing Hallelujah! But as Wellington said after the Battle of Waterloo: “It was a damn close run thing.” Hard pounding it has been. Most …

This year marked 120 years since the birth of outstanding pianist Vera Lotar-Shevchenko. The actress shone on the European stage, spent many years in Stalin’s camps, and after them remained in Siberia, and lived here more than 30 years, until his death in 1982, writes sibreal.org. Photo: sibreal.org “Director of …

So, friends — today will be a great and interesting post on an important topic — banned in the USSR, photographs of Stalin’s Gulag concentration camps. This topic was taboo in almost all the years of the Soviet Union in Stalin’s time it was silent. No one talked about the …

Russia’s constitutional court examines the complaint of three women: they are trying to get an apartment in Moscow, since their parents during the repression of the 1930-ies were deprived of this property. And there is a law guaranteeing this, but in practice for the right of the pensioners have to …

The grave of dead participants in the Vorkuta unrest 1953, the exhibition “GULAG” in GIM September 1 marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second world war, which the USSR entered as an aggressor, by invading the territory of the then Eastern Poland, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. …