The 31st Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been awarded an honorary title.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Germany and Italy, Madden’s group announced its verdict: “This committee unanimously agrees . . . that the Soviet NKVD committed the massacre of Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest ...