NOTE: This post largely reprints last year's Victims of Communism Day post, with some modifications. Today is May ...

A visitor to the Gulag History Museum looks at an exhibit near a photo of a Gulag prisoner in Moscow, Russia, on May 21, 2018. (Celestino Arce / NurPhoto via AFP) MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia plans to ...

This video explores the history and human impact of the Soviet Gulag system, a network of forced labor camps that operated. Millions of prisoners were sent to these camps, where they worked in mines, ...