History is replete with cautionary tales about the dangers of ideological purges, particularly when they target national-security institutions. One of the starkest examples comes from the Soviet Union ...

With Poland fully under German and Soviet control, civilians face forced labor, ghettos, and brutal oppression, while the NKVD targets millions in mass arrests and executions, fueled by Stalin’s ...

A group of Russian scientists have sounded the alarm over what they said were attempts by the head of the security service to openly justify Stalins mass purges, the first such attempt in decades. In ...

As war approached, Stalin’s Great Purge shattered the Soviet military, silenced society, and left millions living in fear.

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

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