“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...
Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...
[Ashaya Basnyat/The Daily Pennsylvanian] 'Washington Post' columnist Anne Applebaum read excerpts from her book at Kelly Writers House. While the Holocaust still garners much attention worldwide, ...
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Totenkopf’s Last Fall: From Fearsome Warriors to Gulag Prisoners
Once legends of the battlefield, the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division’s final days ended in ruin. As the war crumbled, many were ...
Public distrust of unchecked centralized government is a very good thing. Consider the legacy of communism, a system that uses unbridled centralized state power in order to maintain its grip. The more ...
In 1978, Bohdan Klymchak walked out of the Soviet Union and asked for political asylum in Iran. Klymchak was Ukrainian, born near Lviv. In 1949, his family had been deported to Khabarovsk, in the ...
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