Kolyma is a desolate swathe of northeastern Siberia, one-third of the size of Europe, where some of the Soviet gulag's worst atrocities took place. Spurred by the need for resources to finance his ...
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 died in the ...
MARKHAYANOVA, Russia (Reuters) - The Kolyma used to be a river of death for prisoners in some of the harshest camps of Josef Stalin's Gulag empire. Now the camps are long gone, but so too is the ...
As the son of Victor A. Kravchenko, one of the first Soviet defectors to inform the worldwide public about the Stalinist system, including the gulag labor camps, I feel it important to respond to ...
Russia is the world's fourth largest gold producer, and Kolyma in the far north-east of Russia is one of the regions most flush with gold. During Stalin's rule, prisoners of the Gulag were sent to ...
Ken McIntyre, a 30-year veteran of national and local newspapers, served as an editor at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Ken. “The Gulag Collection,” 50 compelling paintings of life and death ...
Ever been to the Gulag? Chances are you’ve seen Auschwitz-Birkenau. Perhaps you’ve also toured one or more of the museums at Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen ...