- A recently released memoir from a former Russian gulag prisoner has
raised the uncomfortable possibility that some Americans who went missing
in action during the Cold War were kept for years as prisoners in the
Soviet Union.
Financial
Times (UK) 8 September 2001
The long shadow of the Gulag: A planned museum in Moscow devoted to the
Stalinist labour camps is opening old wounds.
The Gulag Study
U.S. - Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs The Gulag Study is a compilation
of reports asserting that U.S. servicemen were held in Soviet camps and
prisons. The study draws upon accounts from varied sources, many of whom
claim to have been incarcerated in the Soviet Gulag system.
The
Gulag study Report
POW/Missing
Personnel Office
The
Economics of the GULAG
SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
Kolyma The land of the gold and death
by Stanislaw
J. Kowalski
White
Auschwitz of Kolyma
by Stanislaw J. Kowalski. I saw our ranks dwindling
every day. I witnessed the increase of empty space on the bunks. I saw
my colleagues turning into human shadows to disappear like mist of emptiness
of the eternal
cold.
Nykolai
Getman's Gulag collection
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.
Film
: Kolyma
This award winning documentary is based on eye witness accounts, archival
records, surviving documentary footage and new footage of the remains
of the Kolyma camps.
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.
Magadan-region
photos 1989
Magadan
- city of prison camps and death.
Hardly any city in the world has seen so much death as Magadan in the
Far East of Siberia.
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.
"Memorial'
- Russian online museum
Dispatches
From Hell, By Masha Gessen ( Itogi / Russian weekly 1999 )
Report from the
Kolyma gold mines.
To
The Victims of Communism, Lest We Forget
By Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe, Dec. 7, 1995
IF
GOOD MEN FAIL - David Sisler's thoughts
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing.
Emotional
letter about goodness
A MESSAGE TO MY SON. By Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe.
Between
murderous and noble ideals, By Richard
Grenier THE WASHINGTON TIMES 1997
What's going on here? Do Western journalists and historians have a soft
spot for communism and the Gulag? It wouldn't seem so, but why do they
give Stalin and Soviet communism a pass (as the phrase has it), while
holding Hitler and the Nazis strictly responsible for their deeds?
Concentration
camps in the USSR
Life & Human Right -Tetsuro Kato Professor Hitotsubashi University,
Tokyo
Soviet terror eyewitness Jacques Rossi
Life &
Human Right
Mass
deportations of the 1940s
A UN High Commissioner for Refugees site.
Communism's
100 Million Victims
The New Australian
Too
quickly forgotten : Communism's Corpses
By Doug Bandow - senior fellow at the Cato Institute
Careless
talk: apologists for Hitler and Stalin have faced unequal treatment
The Sunday Times, London, October 11. 1998.
Stalin:
"Ivan IV and Peter The Great did not execute enough people"
Anton Antonov-Avseenko, "Smena" magazine No. 11, 1989
New
GULAG project of the Hoover Institution 1999
In June 1998, the Hoover Institution signed an agreement with the State
Archives of the Russian Federation to publish the records of the Soviet
Gulag. A microfilm edition will include 1.5 million pages of documentation
from the Soviet Archives, covering the entire history of the Gulag from
1922 to 1960. In addition, key documents selected from the Gulag Archives
will be published in six volumes
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
Stalin's
police killed Americans
One-by-one, hundreds of Americans who moved to Russia simply vanished.
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.
Torture,
Murder and Lies
J.R. Nyquist WorldNetDaily contributing editor and author of 'Origins
of the Fourth World War.'
An
interview with Nathan Steinberger
Professor Nathan Steinberger (87) and his wife Edith (89) are among the
handful of former members of the German Communist Party (KPD) who escaped
with their lives from the Stalinist prison camps in the Soviet Union.
Despite their terrible experiences, they have not surrendered their socialist
convictions.
The
Socialist Myth
Disproving neo-socialist/communist movements as fraud with common sense
logic and in depth economic analysis.
The Capitalist Conservative Republican Homepage.
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
Black Book of Communism
A French book on communism equates Hitler's "genocide of race"
with Stalin's "genocide of class." Timothy Garton Ash considers
the implications of comparing Nazism and communism.
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.
Kotlas town and
the Gulag
Starting from the beginning of "universal collectivization"
(February 1930) there was deportation to Kotlas. There were primitive
huts and barracks, where the deported families of peasants awaited their
dispatch. Convoys set out on foot and by barge down the Northern
Dvina and up the Vychegda, they took people into the forests, into virgin
areas. Here they had to build themselves settlements and work at
cutting and rafting timber and building roads.
Poland:
Former Gulag Prisoner Seeks Compensation
Radio Free Europe, By Bogdan Turek
An association of Polish prisoners in the former Soviet gulag camps has
called on the Polish government to demand financial compensation from
Russia for their slavery work.
Statues
park in Budapest
Forced
labor camps in the USSR
Hungarians in Soviet forced
labor camps
George.Z.Bien's
biography
Janos Rozsas memoirs
Flag over the US Capitol for a Hungarian survivor
A gulag-documentary film :Stolen
Years
More
about film "Stolen years
Story
of a Polish family, which was split by the tyranny of Nazism and Communism
Foreword
& some chapters from "MEMORIES OF HALF-OPENED DRAWERS" by
Karol Nawalicki
Drinking
Soviets
Ivan Petrov: Russia Through a Shot Glass. The Soviet regime was christened
and anointed for its last rites with alcohol. In October 1917, with the
cheers greeting Lenin's "Decree on Power" still resounding in
Smolny, the ragtag band of workers and soldiers who had "stormed"
the Winter Palace expropriated the former tsar's choicest treasures: his
immense stocks of wine and vodka.
Lenin
Internet Archive by www.marxists.org
Lenin
Museum in Finnland
Website
on Lenin & The Revolution with many pictures
Posters
from the former Soviet Union
reflect the official
ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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 governmentshow revolutionary zeal and optimism of
building a new society.
Enemy
of the Gulag
By Robert
W. Lee - The New American
Prison and Exile - Communist Cruelty - Telling the World
...In 1952, Stalin ordered a new persecution and purge of Russian Jews,
and on June 6, 1953 Shifrin was arrested, falsely charged with spying
for America, and forced to undergo six months of interrogation in Lubyanka,
the central Moscow prison for political prisoners. The original death
sentence was later reduced to 25 years in prison ...
Academics
Rewrite Soviet History
By Richard Grenier - Washington Times ...But the story has an unhappy ending.
One of the most brilliant Russian historians of the post-Soviet era, Vladimir
Brovkin, is author of three books on Soviet history and editor of two others.
Yale first offered him the opportunity of editing several volumes on the
Soviet Gulag, but he suddenly saw the invitation withdrawn on the nearly
unanimous advice of the advisory board. Why? Too anti-Communist, it appears.
These days Russian intellectuals, having felt the hot breath of the beast,
are far more anti-Communist than Americans, protests Mr. Brovkin. But in
masterly scholarly works, he has made many American specialists in Soviet
studies look like fools, which they don't much enjoy...
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.
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."