"When we left Crimea, everyone sang and cried." Deportations of Crimean Tatars began 80 years ago
May 1944. The Second World War is raging in the world and one of the biggest Soviet crimes - the deportation of the Crimean Tatars - is about to ta...
The Gulag Online virtual museum presents the basic form and dimensions of Soviet repression through a virtual reconstruction of a Gulag camp, specific life stories, selected objects, documents and texts. We have attempted to deliver a representative selection of essential information; our ambition is not to cover every detail of the Soviet system of repression.
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May 1944. The Second World War is raging in the world and one of the biggest Soviet crimes - the deportation of the Crimean Tatars - is about to ta...
One hundred years ago, the Evenks and Yakuts rose up against Soviet domination and created their own state
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On February 23, 1944, the deportation of Chechens and other Caucasian nations to Central Asia began. Hundreds of thousands of people became victims...
The victims of the Gulag, executions, and deportations included more than one million Germans, approximately 700,000 Poles, and more than 20,000 Cz...
The Gulag and Soviet repressions are part of our common European history.
This year, the Saint Wenceslas Day marks the 85th anniversary of the execution of 80 innocent Czechs in Zhytomyr.
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The five-part documentary series Czechs and the Great Terror reveals the unknown fates of Czechs who were executed, deported or imprisoned in the G...
Mosquitos, freezing cold, mysterious taiga. Inhospitable places where thousands of prisoners suffered. To document abandoned Gulags in Siberia, you...
The long-standing discussion regarding the scale of terror often relies on intuitive ideas about political terror in the Soviet period rather than ...
Objects of Gulag prisoners' daily life – shoes, hats, serving bowls, spoons, a bread pan, a hand-made colander, and many more – can be viewed now a...
History of Soviet repressions and victims of deportations in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - a material for the occasion of June 14 deportation ann...
System obozów koncentracyjnych oraz obozów pracy przymusowej, który zaczęto tworzyć od 1919 roku na terenach przyszłego Związku Radzieckiego a któr...
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Druhý díl z dokumentárního cyklu Češi a Velký teror „Prchajíce před kapitalistickým vykořisťováním a nezaměstnaností, přijeli před třinácti lety d...
He never forgot and did everything he could to make sure it would not be forgotten. Arrested 1949 in Leningrad, sent to build a railway in northern...
Anton Šilhavý pomáhal elektrifikovat SSSR, zatčen v roce 1936, poslán na Kolymu a popraven. Karel Šilhavý pracoval v SSSR jako inženýr, zatčen 1938...
In 1932, she left for the Soviet Union in the hope of a better life. In 1938 she was arrested and sent to the Alzhir women's camp in Kazakhstan. Sh...
She received a medal from Stalin, then her husband was executed, her son (who later became the Soviet national artist) was taken away from her, and...
Koncem 30. let se Sovětským svazem přelila brutální vlna státního teroru proti vlastním obyvatelům. Oběťmi byli často občané „podezřelých“ národnos...
The unknown story of a man abducted by the Soviets from Prague to the Gulag in 1948. There he led a successful revolt and inspired Alexander Solzhe...
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Aluminum bowl for eating
A wheelbarrow, or rather a shear (no wheel), to carry uranium ore in mines in a camp in the Marble Gorge.
Notebook with diary entries, technical drawings and diagrams.
A New Year’s greeting for 1953 that we found unburned in the stove of an abandoned camp.
Work boot from the Barabanikha cam