Former UPA liason officer receives copy of her criminal case as recorded by Soviet NKVD
97-year-old Olha Ilkiv, accompanied by her son Volodymyr, arrived at the SBU headquarters in Lviv to…
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Mass graves of victims of political repression discovered in Ivano-Frankivsk
According to eyewitnesses, the employees of Prykarpattyaoblenergo did not initially understand what they were looking at even though…
107 remains of political prisoners executed by NKVD found in old Lutsk prison (photos)
NKVD – the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the leading Soviet secret police organization from 1934 to…
Russian Guard’s aspirations open the way to mass repressions, Stanovaya says
Russia is on the way to acquiring a government institution fully capable of mass repressions, Tatyana Stanovaya says.…
Putin gives his Guard powers even NKVD didn’t have: the question now is why? Gorevoy says
Vladimir Putin on May 24th gave his National Guard the right to assume control over and give orders…
Putin’s Russian Guard is true ‘heir to the NKVD,’ its deputy commander says
In explaining why the new Russian Guard plans to restore the red banner and the name Feliks Dzerzhinsky…
80 years ago, Stalin’s NKVD began to arrest and shoot the deaf and dumb
One of Hitler’s most heinous crimes was his execution of Germans with physical and mental handicaps, an action…
Ukrainians discover stories of repressed relatives in newly opened KGB archives
Russia and Ukraine hold the world’s largest documentary collections of Communist secret services that ceased to exist in…
Putin regime raised political police above all other force structures, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ says
The Kremlin has “often put the E Center” – the informal name of the MVD’s Anti-Extremism Center –…
Putin’s special operations achieve a second and larger victory when they are exposed
Many in the US and elsewhere are horrified by Vladimir Putin’s overt and covert efforts to affect the…
The story of Anna Popovych: love, war, death, gulag and freedom
Anna Popovych was born in the village of Zelena, Nadvinyansky Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on May 29, 1925. During…
Russian blogger Yakovlev: My grandfather was a “chekist” and a murderer
Have you ever seen a real chekist ID? This belonged to my grandfather and I still have it.…
Remains of executed victims found in Lviv’s Prison on Lontskoho Museum
For more than three weeks Ukrainian archaeologists have been excavating the courtyard of the National Memorial Museum “Tyurma…
Kuropaty, the Soviet killing fields in Belarus — world must not forget
Zianon Pazniak, who 28 years ago published an article exposing the Soviet killing fields at Kuropaty, a wooded…
Lists of NKVD victims killed in mass executions in 1941 published online
75 years ago, during June – July 1941, the Soviet NKVD shot around 24 thousand prisoners in western…
Ihor’s life story: a mirror image of Ukraine’s history in the 20th century
Ihor Popovych is a 83-year-old resident of Lviv who lived through the horrors of the Soviet totalitarian system…
Archives show Stalin was ready to give Hitler Ukraine and the Baltics
A few days after Hitler broke his alliance with Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet dictator…
The destruction of Ukraine’s folk singers
In early December 1930, a Congress of the Folk Singers of Soviet Ukraine, with 337 delegates from different…
Terrorists using KGB tactics in Donbas war
Terrorists dressed in the uniforms of Ukrainian Armed Forces are seizing prisoners and engaging in terrorism. During the…
How Ukraine got into such bad shape
It’s happened elsewhere. Countries within the former USSR and all Eastern European countries, including those that have already…