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Generation Gulag

I Wouldn't Live This Life a Second Time | Generation Gulag: Yuris Yankevich

A survivor of the Soviet repressions reflects on the Soviet campaign to destroy the Latvian intelligentsia.
Generation Gulag

Betraying the Motherland | Generation Gulag: Valentina Vodyanitskaya

The KGB forbade Valentina from talking about her time in a Gulag camp. Today, she tells her story.
Generation Gulag

Pregnant in the Gulag | Generation Gulag: Vera Golubeva

Vera was 8 months pregnant when she was sent to the Gulag camps. This is her story.
Generation Gulag

You’re a Free Man | Generation Gulag: Andrys Ziders

Andrys and his family were among the 15,000 Latvians deported to Siberia amid Stalin's repressions.
hiding in plain sight

Activists Protest Facial Recognition in Moscow

A group of artists and activists is using a low-tech method to thwart Moscow's massive network of facial recognition cameras: face paint.
Generation Gulag

Love at First Sight | Generation Gulag: Galina Nelidova

One moment between Galina and a young Norwegian man led to five years in a Gulag labor camp.
Generation Gulag

One-Way Ticket to the U.S.S.R. | Generation Gulag: Liliane Jeanne Monit

In the years after World War II, Soviet recruiters traveled the world, convincing those who’d fled the Bolshevik Revolution to return. Liliane’s father...
Generation Gulag

An Officer’s Daughter | Generation Gulag: Olga Shirokaya

Olga Shirokaya watched as Stalin eliminated his inner circle, including her father. Then, while her university class watched, the KGB arrested her, too...
Generation Gulag

I Was So Naive | Generation Gulag: Irina Verblovskaya

When Irina was sentenced to five years in a Gulag labor camp after Stalin's death, she still couldn’t believe she’d really serve the time.
Generation Gulag

The Dancer | Generation Gulag: Azari Plesetsky

Azari Plesetsky is one of the thousands who grew up fatherless after Stalin's repressions.