With Poland fully under German and Soviet control, civilians face forced labor, ghettos, and brutal oppression, while the NKVD targets millions in mass arrests and executions, fueled by Stalin’s ...

In 1943, with the Axis collapsing, Nazi intelligence prepared an audacious strike. Code-named Operation Long Jump, it aimed to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin during the Tehran Conference ...

There was a lapse of five years between the first time that the FBI’s heat came on Stalinist agent Mark Zborowski, in 1953, and when he finally appeared before the court for perjury in 1958. His ...

This article by Alisa Selezneva was originally published in Russian in Holod Magazine on February 19, 2025. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with ...

In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

At the Victory Day parade in Moscow on 9 May, former NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the interior ministry of the Soviet Union – ed.) and KGB officers who did not fight during World ...

Stalin spoke of the continuity of Soviet policy. If anything were to happen to him, there would be good men ready to step into his shoes. —Winston Churchill in Triumph and Tragedy Georgy Malenkov was ...

ONE WHO SURVIVED—The Life Story of a Russian under the Soviets—Alexander Barmine—Putnam ($3.75). Whoever else buys this book, one copy will almost certainly be bought by the NKVD, Russia’s secret ...