In the letter, Wałęsa and the other former political prisoners compared the Trump administration's words to those of Soviet ...

At the time, Soviet leaders reportedly feared that Beria would use his control of the secret police to fully seize power. Beria was later tried and convicted of treason and was executed in Moscow ...

Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of ...

The Soviet police organizations, designed to keep watch on others, are no less subject to scrutiny and constant inspection than the lower-classes. "Leading members of the secret police become ...

Part of Grimau’s job was to serve on kangaroo courts, called Chekas (after the onetime initials of the Soviet secret police), which ordered dozens of summary death sentences during the brutal ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The plane crash occurred when the presidential delegation was flying to Smolensk, Russia, to pay tribute to some 22,000 Polish officers killed in the ...