Russia is turning one of its last major spaces for confronting Soviet-era repression into a showcase for state-sanctioned patriotism. The Gulag History Museum in Moscow — long a rare institutional ...
The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.
The word 'gulag' has become shorthand for state terror. Behind the acronym lies one of history's most methodical and devastating systems of human punishment, one that shaped modern Russia and left sca ...