Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

Letter writers discuss local representatives supporting ‘big, beautiful bill,’ our changing republic and not supporting ...

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 ...

Stalin made the NKVD the “inner temple” of Communism, and its dedicated, anonymous thousands of operators not only controlled the police, espionage, security and surveillance agencies, ...

Under Stalin, Beria was head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946. He oversaw several ...

KHRUSHCHEV’S DENUNCIATION OF STALIN . The most sensational event in recent Communist history was Nikita Khrushchev’s three-hour secret address to the 20th Congress of the party in February.

Putin's Stalin-era surveillance tactics NPR's Cheryl Corley speaks with investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov about his ... like the secret police used by Joseph Stalin, which was called the NKVD.

During the Hitler-Stalin pact, the Soviets engaged in the most sinister exploitation of minorities as political leverage: 570 German Communists wanted by the Nazis were gathered in Moscow prisons and ...

Lavrentiy Beria was a truly evil man. From 1938 to 1953, Beria was chief of Joseph Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD. Under Beria, the NKVD conducted purges of Communist Party loyalists and ...

The Big House is the nickname of the St Petersburg headquarters of Stalin's NKVD secret police, which later became that of the Soviet KGB and now the Russian FSB. "I've made inquiries, but to no ...

The great British stage actor Simon Russell Beale plays Lavrentiy Beria, the obese and odious head of the NKVD, the Soviet security apparatus. Beria had the clout to exile or kill Stalin’s enemies.