An Unlikely Success Story What was America's most successful fighter aircraft during World War II? Many might say the Mu ...

A Moscow restaurant named "NKVD", like Stalin's secret police, loses its street sign amid a furore.

According to Anne Applebaum's "Gulag: A History," NKVD records show that in 1942 the gulag population was 1,777,043. Of those, at least 352,560 died in captivity.

Stalin and his NKVD boss, Lavrenty Beria were both Georgians. Glasnost Openness or candor. ... KGB-Soviet political police Abbreviations of Russian for Committee for State Security.

Poland’s parliament will on Wednesday open a 24-panel exhibition honoring victims of the Augustów Round-up, an unresolved 1945 Soviet crackdown that killed or disappeared hundreds of anti-communist ...

More than 20 bodies of people shot in the 1940s, almost certainly by the Soviet NKVD secret police, have been found in a church in northern Belarus, historians in the former Soviet state said ...

And once the NKVD went into high gear, ... It goes on, including tales of Bukovsky's own experiences as a victim of Soviet torture and deserves to be read in its entirety.

Unidentified vandals have defiled a memorial dedicated to the memory of the victims of mass political repressions executed by Soviet NKVD employees in Bykivnia, a suburb of Kyiv, head of the Ukrainian ...

The NKVD was the forerunner of the Soviet KGB secret police. In the 1930s and 1940s the NKVD arrested millions of people and many were executed.