The prisoners were... Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 6 - Over a million Russians were returned against their will, and most of them were either immediately killed or sent to the ...

One day in 1945, in the waning days of World War II, Anton Iwanowski and his brother Wiktor escaped from a Russian gulag and set off across an unforgiving landscape, desperate to return home to ...

Ukrainian historian Anna Khlebina, Czech historian Adam Hradilek, and their team, are searching for the fate of Czechoslovaks ...

Frozen wastelands, brutal forced labor, and millions of prisoners—inside the Soviet Gulags, survival was ... M1 Garand – The Rifle That Won World War II Toddler finds stone which turns out ...

When Maria Urbaniak was sent to the Russian gulags during World War II, she would sneak out of the barracks at night and lay in the snow stripped to her waist, hoping to catch pneumonia and die ...

Recasting Sandarmokh as a burial ground for the honored war dead as well as gulag prisoners would make ... were Russia’s darkest era before World War II. Right on their heels came the deep ...

Erich Alfred Hartmann was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and was credited with ...

Moscow’s famed metro system has unveiled a Soviet-era monument to Josef Stalin in one of its central stations, as part of a gradual reappraisal of the dictator’s legacy in Russia.