After debuting in New York last summer, the exhibition “Constructing Hope: Ukraine” — spotlighting grassroots organizations ...

Stalin approved Lavrentiy Beria’s plan to eliminate thousands of Polish army and police officers, border guards and intelligentsia taken prisoner in September 1939. In April and May, the NKVD ...

A child repeating the word in front of strangers or at school could attract the attention of the Soviet secret police ... elite divisions of the NKVD, the predecessor of the KGB, and the military ...

But the Chinese system differs in one important respect from the Russian: Stalin’s NKVD and MVD worked in ... After working for a time with the Soviet secret police, Lo became a political ...

In the 1930s, the NKVD (the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946 — ed.) executed more than 9,500 people there. Among them were 287 Ukrainians, including 23 writers ...

Any and all western supported, democratic institutions or leaders in liberated Eastern Europe were rounded up by Soviet police (NKVD ... while Soviet inspired secret police forces such as ...