Specialists on religion in the Soviet Union have known for decades that many of the most senior hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church were KGB officers, but few Russians know much about this because the Kremlin hasn’t wanted to draw...
The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the dawn of Soviet power, is today the model and prototype for Vladimir Putin’s approach to the Russian Orthodox Church and...
Sometimes the driest of statistics throw a harsher light on reality than any longer discussion. According to official statistics, during World War II, Soviet tribunals convicted more than 2.5 million Soviet citizens, condemned 472,000 for...
On 24 March 2018, 134 bodies of victims of Soviet terror in the west-Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk were given a proper burial, Ukrinform reported. The victims were killed during the Communist terror of 1939-1941. They were discovered...
The KGB and its predecessors were not the highly disciplined professionals and successful managers Vladimir Putin and the numerous state-controlled media outlets want Russians to believe, according to a new book on the organization’s...
Aleksandr Bortnikov, the director of the FSB secret police a successor to the KGB, says that the political repressions of the 1930s were often justified because the archives show that there really were active conspiracies directed at...
In the summer of 2017, while laying cables along the street, engineers stumbled upon several human remains. Pamyat employees immediately began excavations and research. According to director Vasyl Tymkiv they soon realized that they had...
97-year-old Olha Ilkiv, accompanied by her son Volodymyr, arrived at the SBU headquarters in Lviv to pick up three volumes of copies of her criminal case. Olha was arrested by the NKVD in 1950 and incarcerated in the Prison...
According to eyewitnesses, the employees of Prykarpattyaoblenergo did not initially understand what they were looking at even though an old Jewish cemetery is located right next to the discovery site. However, local residents prevented...
NKVD – the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the leading Soviet secret police organization from 1934 to 1946. It is known for its political repression and implementation of the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. The fact...
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...
