Nadezhda Tolokonnikova delivering a speech in court during the Pussy Riot trial (screen shot via YouTube) Yekaterina Samutsevich, the band member released from prison earlier this month, spoke to ...
Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union entered a period known as the Khrushchev Thaw, marked by limited political and cultural liberalization. The shift allowed writers, ...
As early as 1942, Soviet security services created a strict system to separate Waffen SS prisoners from ordinary German soldiers. Labeled ideological enemies rather than standard POWs, SS captives ...
The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.