VORKUTA, Russia -- Anna Krikun can barely read the yellowing papers that show she was sentenced as a young woman to hard labor in one of Stalin’s cruelest Gulag camps. At 90, her eyesight is fading.
Anna Krikun spent a decade in a Soviet labor camp in Vorkuta, the city in the Russian Arctic where 36 workers died in coal-mine disaster last month. Krikun survived dictator Josef Stalin’s Great ...
On the 50th anniversary of the June 17, 1953 East German revolt News and Letters editor's note: June 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of the first mass revolt against Stalinist totalitarianism --the ...
Vorkuta, a city in the Komi Republic in Russia, used to be one of the centers of the infamous Soviet Gulag camp system. The Gulag might have vanished, but people still remain in the area, both ...
The Mayor of what used to be one of the most infamous outposts of Josef Stalin's Gulag wants to charge masochistic foreign tourists £80 a day to "holiday" in an elaborate mock-up of a Soviet prison ...
More than 50 years after they were deported by Stalin, hundreds of freed inmates remain trapped in the frozen north, writes Julius Strauss in Vorkuta When Lidya Wittman was 20 years old she was loaded ...
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