Jan Plovajko

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. Arrested entering the USSR in October 1940. Sentenced to three years in the Gulag in Norilsk. In 1943 released into...

Antonín Vodseďálek

Jiří Bezděk

Left for USSR as Czech teacher in 1927. Arrested in 1930. Deported to Solovetsky Islands and later Siberia. Returned to Czechoslovakia in 1936. Per...

Anna Havranová

Born on 7 April 1992 in the village of Sinevirská Poľana in Carpathian Ruthenia. Following the Hungarian occupation in 1939 she decided to escape ...

Anton a Karel Šilhaví

Anton Šilhavý pomáhal elektrifikovat SSSR, zatčen v roce 1936, poslán na Kolymu a popraven. Karel Šilhavý pracoval v SSSR jako inženýr, zatčen 1938...

Jozef Bobalik

Born in 1928 in the east of Slovakia. In 1947 his family left for the Soviet Union. In 1948 arrested and sentenced to 10 years in Gulag

Ivan Kováč - From Prague to the Gulag to Solzhenitsyn

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...

Mass deportations of Ukrainians: from history to Russia's modern crimes

24 February 2024 marks two years since the beginning of the full-scale war against Ukraine. Russia is committing many crimes against the Ukrainian ...