They finally heard the stories of how, during World War II, elite divisions of the NKVD, the predecessor of the KGB, and the military were deployed to deport the entire Chechen and Ingush ...

The 1943 exhumation of a mass grave of Polish officers killed by the NKVD in the Katyn Forest in 1940.Photo: Unknown, probably Polish Red Cross delegation, uploaded by Andros64, Public domain ...

Pavlov’s House The stronghold of the 13th Guards was located at the bombed out NKVD headquarters, a soviet government law enforcement agency. Steph Curry Wins All-Star Game MVP in Otherwise ...

In May 1941, Lysenko personally signed off on a list of NKVD-selected experts who wrote a report supporting the trumped up charges against Vavilov. All these chapters are vividly written.