The list contains 20 names: from Joseph Stalin to an NKVD driver, who “will be prosecuted as an accomplice.” “The charge is: a conspiracy to commit mass murder,” said Karagodin.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...