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

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.

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 ...

Janet Ross, Moscow correspondent for the Communist Daily Worker, was an NKVD agent who in 1943 reported U.S. ambassador William Standley’s criticism of Soviet policy made to a small group of ...

In the spring of 1940, the Soviet political police, NKVD, carried out a secret killing of at least 22,436 Polish prisoners; 4,421 of them were executed in Katyn. Among the countless crimes of World ...

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.

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.