TODAY is the 85th anniversary of the first of a series of mass deportations from Poland’s eastern borderlands to Siberia.

There are some alarming parallels between Elon Musk's consolidation of power in the United States and the rise of one of ...

“They [the NKVD] immediately jumped on me ... With the Uprising vilified by Stalin, and the Home Army branded “illegal” and filled with “bandit insurrectionists” that had been commanded by ...

Presidential Executive Orders.  I never paid them much attention until they were weaponized, sharpened daggers to impale a president’s perceived enemies—from within. Worse yet, his “disloyal” list is ...

When asked, he includes Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s NKVD head, and a notorious murderer and sexual predator (several children’s skulls were found on his property, among those of others), as one of his ...

Poland is the largest haven for Belarusian exiles, and the country’s pre-1989 history of the anti-communist mobilization resonates well with those struggling for democracy now. Almost five years after ...

This is the situation when British PM Winston Churchill flies via Cairo and Tehran for a meeting in Moscow with General ...

In the year or so that I have been working on a history of Stalin’s concentration camps ... a civilian witness who accompanied the NKVD – predecessors of the KGB – on their midnight rampage through ...