In the forests of southern Siberia, workers are still working as serfs in the Gulag, paying off North Korea's $3.8 billion Cold War debt. Kim Sung Chol came to work at a North Korean Logging Camp in ...

This release gives hope to a lot of people back in Putin’s gulag that [their sentences are ... international prisoner exchange since the Cold War. Last week, he joined Opinion Editor David ...

Kara-Murzawas freed last August in the biggest exchange of prisoners since the Cold War. He is one of the surviving ... months since his release from the gulag where he thought he would die.

Here, the late satirist P.J. O’Rourke’s comments on the end of the Cold War are instructive: “A huge totalitarian system with all its tanks and guns, gulag camps, and secret police had been ...

The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as ...

Two books delve into the ordeal of the prison camps known as the gulag in the Soviet Union. Barenberg offers an overview of the Soviet penal system, masterminded by Stalin, between 1930 and 1960, when ...

In those days, it was called “The Cold War.” Germany was divided ... him to parachute into 15 years of captivity in a Russian gulag in Siberia. It was the first time a surface-to-air missile ...

Chaignot's betrayal single-handedly neutralized the work of national intelligence on the emerging Cold War front ... in an ITL [abbreviation for Gulag]." Sikora pleaded not guilty, but thanks ...

The most famous spying mission flown during the cold war was the high-altitude flight of Francis Gary Powers, whose U-2 was brought down on May 1, 1960, by a Soviet surface-to-air missile.

Sakwa, a political scientist, offers an eloquent and persuasive argument about how the world squandered the promise of the end of the Cold War and plunged into what he calls “Cold War II,” epitomized ...