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Militarized individuals who disrupted the commemoration day for the victims of the Great Purge at the Sandarmokh memorial site in Russia.

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Echoes of Stalin’s terror: Great Purge memorial day faces interference from “Russian patriots”

The Memorial Day for the victims of Stalin’s regime, including thousands of Ukrainians, at the Sandarmokh memorial site in Russia was interrupted by militarised patriotic individuals, who celebrated Soviet military glory.

byVira Kravchuk

Soviet secret order to convert German concentration camps to GULAG camps. Nazi concentration camps were used in this quality for five more years. Of them, some of the most infamous were Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen (special camps #2 and #7 in the Soviet terminology). Starting with 1948, the former Nazi concentration camps were transferred to GULAG, and destroyed only in the 1950s. The Soviets even saved their equipment and tools: the new owners moved it to the USSR and used for their intended purpose inside Soviet domestic concentration camps within the GULAG. This document states that the USSR took wooden barracks, kitchen, laundry, and medical equipment, as well as some so-called "production mechanisms." What was hidden under that menacing term the document did not explain. (Image: ГА РФ. Ф. 9414. ОП. 1С. Д. 360. Л. 222)

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After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says

The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…

byPaul A. Goble

GULAG prisoners awaiting commands from the guard. Millions of Soviet and foreign citizens were killed, starved or worked to death in camps like this. (Image: thegulag.org)

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30 years on, only one Russian in 100 connects USSR with Red Terror, shootings and GULAG

Given Vladimir Putin’s obsession with the Soviet Union whose demise he regularly calls “the greatest geopolitical disaster” of…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada rescues videos, testimonies of Ukrainian dissidents

Director Yuriy Luhovy and producer Zoryana Hrytsenko from Canada have rescued 26 video recordings of Ukrainian dissidents. These…

byRadio Liberty

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Paraska Plytka Horytsvit, “Ukrainian Vivian Maier,” returns to the limelight

Paraska’s creative output includes more than 4,000 photographs and about 500 books. She wrote many of her…

byChristine Chraibi

'The Leaders of the Stalin Period' by Igor Obrosov

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Moscow moves from justifying GULAG to glorifying it

Indeed, Viktoriya Nikiforova says, Russians should not accept the widespread myths about Stalin’s camps that have been spread…

byPaul A. Goble

Ingermanland Finns attend a memorial service for tens of thousands of their people destroyed by Stalin's genocidal policies at an old Finnish cemetery in Koltushi village on June 24, 1989. (Image: RIAN)

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Russia still hiding Stalin’s genocidal crimes against Finns and Norwegians after 80 years

One of the most obscure aspects of Stalin’s rule was his deportation of Finns and Norwegians in 1940…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainian dissident Oleksa Tykhyy. How a teacher from Soviet Donetsk became “Public Enemy #1”

In his article “Reflections on my native Donetsk” (Думки про рідний донецький край, 1972), Oleksa Tykhyy wrote the…

byRadio Liberty

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Putin restores the GULAG by legalizing slave labor of convicts

Given all the changes Vladimir Putin is making in these days in the Russian constitutional order, ones that…

byPaul A. Goble

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History of Ukraine

The story of Father Ivan Kypriyan and his children who froze to death in a soviet gulag

The world knows about Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan friar, who volunteered to take the place of…

byChristine Chraibi

90-year-old Ukrainian has become the first wrongly-incarcerated victim of the communist regime to be rehabilitated by Ukraine

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Ukraine

Ukraine rehabilitates first living victim of Communist regime

The press service of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance stated that the National Rehabilitation Commission has recognized…

byCivic Sector Organizations

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They broke the Gulag: How Ukrainians overcame the Soviet repressive machine

“They triumphed, though their struggle stretched for 74 years of existence of the communist totalitarian and its concentration…

byRadio Liberty

A screen capture of the interactive map of GULAG facilities in Moscow published by the Memorial organization at http://topos.memo.ru (Screen capture by Euromaidan Press)

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GULAG was not something far away in Siberia: it was all around, even in Moscow

Today, Russians of good will paused to remember those who had suffered and died in Stalin’s GULAG. This…

byPaul A. Goble

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A new GULAG is emerging just as Stalin’s did slowly and insidiously, Gudkov warns

A “new GULAG” is emerging in Russia “right before our eyes,” opposition politician Gennady Gudkov says. For the…

byPaul A. Goble

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The Kremlin and the GULAG: Deliberate amnesia

Read also: Moscow secretly destroyed GULAG victims records in 2014 The classified order on “The effectuation of the order…

byThink Tank

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Moscow secretly destroyed GULAG victims records in 2014

Roman Romanov, the director of the GULAG History Museum in Moscow, says that one of his researchers, Sergey…

byPaul A. Goble

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Tatar political prisoner: I will continue to denounce Russia’s criminal government

Would you describe the day you left the prison? Actually, a conflict arose on the day I left…

byUkrainian media sources

Kola Norwegians, aka Kolanordmenn, at the Soviet border with Finland in 1927 (Image: Vadso Museum - Ruija Kvenmuseum)

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Another ‘punished people’ documented – the Kola Norwegians destroyed by Stalin

As the Putin regime takes more steps to hide the crimes of Stalin – it has gotten Interpol…

byPaul A. Goble

A false confession under torture: "I’m… an English, French, American, Japanese, Italian, German and maybe some other spy as well…" ("Drawings from the GULAG" by Danzig Baldaev, a former NKVD guard)

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Chief of Russia’s FSB: Stalin-era repressions were largely justified

Aleksandr Bortnikov, the director of the FSB secret police [a successor to the KGB], says that the political…

byPaul A. Goble

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Gandalf’s case: Russia prosecutes man literally digging up its darkest Gulag secrets

In Petrozavodsk on June 1 began the trial of one of the most amazing people I have ever…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor