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 | N. Getman's Gulag collection STANDALONE, MUST SEE!
Getman spent eight years in Siberia at the Kolyma labor camps where he witnessed firsthand one of the darkest periods of Soviet history. Although he survived the camps, the horrors of the GULAG seared into his memory. Upon his release in 1954, Getman commenced a public career as a politically correct painter. Secretly, however, for more than four decades, Getman labored at creating a visual record of the GULAG which vividly depicts all aspects of the horrendous life (and death) which so many innocent millions experienced during that infamous era. |
 | MEMORIAL
International historical-enlightenment, Human rights and humanitarian society. Russian site. |
 | New light on dark corners of the Gulag
Sunday, April 27, 2003
By STEVEN GREENHUT Senior editorial writer and columnist
When life gets rough, religious people often ask in prayer, "God, God, why have you forsaken me?" Yet, as Russian Christians often joke, the Russian believer doesn't cry out in such a prayer when things are particularly bad, but only when things are inexplicably good, when there are no trials, tribulations or sufferings. |
 | Forget the Central Square; city needs a Gulag monument
Vladivostok News
By Russell Working |
 | No Escape For Gulag's Former Prisoners
By Julius Strauss The Telegraph - UK
More Than 50 Years After They Were Deported By Stalin, Hundreds Of Freed Inmates Remain Trapped In The Frozen North.
VORKUTA -- When Lidya Wittman was 20 years old she was loaded into a railway goods wagon in central Russia and shipped to a gulag in the Arctic. |
| Russian Memoir Says US GIs Kept In Siberian Labor Camps
WASHINGTON (www.nandotimes.com) - Pentagon investigators say they have obtained the memoir of a Russian emigre and former prisoner who claims that dozens of American servicemen from World War II and the Korean War were detained in Siberian labor camps in the former Soviet Union. |
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Gulag: Understanding the Magnitude of What Happened
CapitalismMagazine.com | November 7, 2003 | |
 | Stalin's Political Pilgrims
by Adam Young [January 8, 2002]
John Walker, who left his California home to join the Taliban, was hardly the first American citizen to be seduced to sign onto a foreign ideological movement. As America sank into depression in the 1930s, it also embarked on what would be called its "Red Decade" of infatuation with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. This delusion would draw hundreds of American citizens to join up with Stalin's cause. It was a fateful decision, as many of them ended up being executed. |
| The Gulag: Communism's Penal Colonies Revisited
Journal of Historical Review by Dan Michaels
During the twentieth century it became common practice for nations to detain citizens whose loyalty to the state was considered unreliable or suspect in times of war or "national emergency." To sequester such persons Britain, the United States, and Germany all established centers, variously called (often depending on who won and who lost) relocation centers, detention centers, labor camps, concentration camps, or death camps. Depending on circumstances, the treatment of inmates varied from benign to cruel. Such facilities in these countries were, however, temporary measures undertaken during times of national peril. Only in the Soviet Union, where such camps were collectively known as the Gulag |
 | Marxist Dreams and Soviet Realities by Ralph Raico
May 1, 1998
Ralph Raico is a professor of history at the State University College at Buffalo and a senior fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.
"The most notorious of the camps was Kolyma, in eastern Siberia -- in actuality, a system of camps four times the size of France. There the death rate may have been as high as 50 percent per year and the number of deaths was probably on the order of 3,000,000. |
 | The Soviet Gulag Era in Pictures - 1927 through 1953
"Millions in the wrong place at the wrong time"
OKAY Multimedia |
| The Official Website of the International Shalamov Society |
| Varlam Salamov Kolyma-survivor [site 1] |
 | Interview with a Kolyma-survivor
Commongroundradio Guest:Janusz Bardach, author, Man is Wolf to Man The Stanley Foundation 1998. |
| Interview with Susanna Pechuro gulag-survivor - CNN |
 | Chinese crusader visits former Kolyma gulag prison
Harry Wu spent 19 years in Maoist prisons that were modeled after the Soviet gulag system and set up with the help of Russian experts. And now that the former dissident was visiting Russia's heart of darkness -- the city that was once the center of a sprawling archipelago of sub-Arctic prison camps -- he wanted a better look at the site. |
| Gulag exhibit stirs sorrow
The artists, Katya Kandyba and Sveta Voronina, both 29, belong to the generation which can openly speak about the repression of the past. Voronina’s grandfather disappeared in the meat grinder of the NKVD, and her grandmother never talked about him until recently. All this past is still inside us, she says. |
| A mathematician in the Kolyma gold mine : M.P.Krawtchouk
Krawtchouk studied at St Vladimir University in Kiev and obtained his first degree in 1914. The First World War broke out shortly after Krawtchouk graduated and because of problems at Kiev University he had to move to Moscow. However, it was a time of severe political problems with one disruption following another for Krawtchouk. |
| Guitar in the GULag: Guitar Music by Matvei Pavlov-Azancheev, 1888–1963
During a tour in the city of Sochi, Pavlov-Azancheev was slandered, falsely accused, and arrested on charges of Chapter 58.10, part two (“Anti-Soviet Propaganda”) and spent the years 1941–1951 in a labor camp. He was more fortunate than millions of others: instead of Siberia, he was sent to a small “correctional colony” in the south of Russia with a relatively mild regime. Throughout his imprisonment, the composer always had the right to keep correspondence, which he exercised extensively. |
 | Soviet terror eyewitness Jacques Rossi
Life & Human Right | Concentration camps in the USSR
Life & Human Right -Tetsuro Kato Professor Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo |
 | Soviet Repression |
 | Comparative Analysis of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, the Former Soviet Union and North Korea
Presented by Pierre Rigoulot at The 1st International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees (Seoul, 1999) |
 | A secret revealed: Stalin's police killed Americans
By Alan Cullison, For The Associated Press |
 | The Japanese Victims of Stalinist Terror in the USSR
Prof. Tetsuro Kato (Japan)
In the 1920s and 1930s, there were about 100 Japanese who dreamed of living in "the paradise of the working class" and went to the USSR. These people were mainly communists, who were oppressed by the imperial police in Japan. There were also ordinary workers, intellectuals and artists who were not communist. |
 | How Many Did Communist Regimes Murder?
By R.J. Rummel
With the passing of communism into history as an ideological alternative to democracy it is time to do some accounting of its human costs. |
 | COMMUNISM IN AMBUSH
How the Scourge of the 20th Century Is Preparing For Fresh Savagery |
| | Statues of Communism Park in Budapest Museum of communism By Brian Caplan A Forgotten Odyssey
This site is connected to 'A Forgotten Odyssey', a recent documentary film by Jagna Wright and Aneta Naszynska. It deals with the forgotten tragedy of 1.7 million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish) deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) in 1940-42 to special labour camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia. A Gulag and Holocaust Memoir of Janina Sulkowska-Gladun
"Janka" joined the underground with friends, but in 1940 she was arrested by the NKVD, tortured and
shipped to the Gulag. Her entire family would be deported to Siberia, and many relatives and friends suffered and died at the hands of the Soviets and Nazis. Janina's award-winning memoir chronicles her amazing odyssey, starting with the invasion of Poland, as a prisoner in the outposts of the Gulag, her survival in the USSR and escape, and finally exile in India and England. Lenin Internet Archive by www.marxists.org
Works, biography, images Foreword & some chapters from "MEMORIES OF HALF-OPENED DRAWERS" by Karol Nawalicki Website on Lenin & The Revolution with many pictures.
After Alexander, Vladimir Ilich's (VI) older brother, was hanged for revolutionary activities May 8, 1887, VI's interests turned towards the revolutionary ideas that his brother died figthing for. Soviet Posters
With the Russian Revolution of 1917, for the first time in history an entire nation is governed by a communist system. The posters from the first years of this government show revolutionary zeal and optimism of building a new society. Red Files
Important terms from the Red Files episode "Soviet Propaganda Machine" are defined below.
Afghanistan - Little Octoberists - Bay of Pigs - Pavlik Morozov - BBC - Pioneers - Cuban Missile Crisis - Pravda - Dachau - Radio Free Europe - Great Purges - Radio Moscow - Glavlit - SALT - Gulag - Soviet Encyclopedia - Hungarian Revolution - Soviet Union - ICBM - Star Wars - Iron Curtain - VOA - Kulaks Archivist offers glimpse into long-secret gulag records
By Kathleen O'Toole - Stanford (online) Report
The most interesting revelations are still to come, Sergei Mironenko, the director of the State Archives of the Russian Federation promises, his eyes twinkling. Then he dishes out a preview from the gulag's records:
"I have seen several papers that amazed me, for example, the order from Beria 20 days after Stalin's death to destroy the torture chambers." To The Victims of Communism, Lest We Forget
By Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe, Dec. 7, 1995 . . Purimfest 1953
To celebrate being saved from a potential second Holocaust
planned by a 20th century Haman: Stalin
Website also includes:
Global Communist Genocide - Introspection - by Larry Pfeffer
Tikun Olam - Heresz Olam - by Larry Pfeffer
Jerusalem, March 9, 2004. Mass deportations of the 1940s
A UN High Commissioner for Refugees site. Holidays in the Gulag
Kazimieras Vasiloauskas was a seminarian in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1946.... Fr. Kazimieras worked in the mines of the Urals for 11 years. He spent nine more years in exile, i.e., something between house arrest and parole, usually in an isolated place. NKVD officer's booklet
This is an original NKVD (precursor to the KGB), black ID book for an officer in a Soviet labor camp. THE MOST EVIL SYMBOL IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
The hammer and sickle, the symbol of the "collapsed" Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is the banner under which at least 50,000,000 people were murdered, and countless others imprisioned. This state had no respect for any of the freedoms we take for granted in our country today. Freedom of thought, Freedom of association, freedom of movement, Freedom of religion, just to mention a few, all these were banned "for the common good" in Communist Russia. HAMMER AND SICKLE: SYMBOL OF EVIL USED AROUND THE WORLD
What the communists in Russia did to the people of that country, your country probably has a similar group waiting for the chance to do it to you! The fact that they continue to operate under the same banner show that they have the same plans. Beware the evil that is International communism. No decent society would tolerate the swastika, why does everyone tolerate the hammer and sickle? |
