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The Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish prisoners of war , by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of...

The Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000.P

Ex Ukrainian NKVD boss, V. Balitsky portrait in uniform but without hat; grainy print, reproducted from Soviet newspaper pic.

Richard Vitoldovich Pickel , Early 1930s. Private Collection. Artist Anonymous.

Richard Vitoldovich Pickel (1896-1936)

Soviet poster depicting Lavrentiy Beria head of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police from 1940 until his death.

Soviet poster depicting Lavrentiy Beria (1899-1953) head of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police from 1940 until his death.

Soviet border guard with his dog, End 1930s. Private Collection.

Soviet Border Guard With His Dog

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, 1941-1943. Private Collection.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria

Agent Ramon Mercader in hospital in Mexico City after his arrest for the attempted assassination of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky with an ice...

Trotsky's Assassin

Ramón Mercader, Leon Trotsky, Assassination

Agent Ramon Mercader in hospital in Mexico City after his arrest for the attempted assassination of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky with an ice...

Trotsky's Assassin

Ramón Mercader, Leon Trotsky, Spy

Photo taken on September 28 shows the forested area near Moscow known as Kommunarka where historians belive Stalin's NKVD secret police killed and...

TOPSHOT-DOUNIAMAG-RUSSIA-HISTORY-PHOTOGRAPHY-HUMAN-RIGHTS

Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, was arrested and executed in 1938 as an 'enemy of the people'. In 1940 Yezhov was shot in an...

Russia / Soviet Union: Josef Stalin walking with Vyacheslav Molotov (left) and Nikolai Yezhov (right), Moscow, 1937

Joseph Stalin, Former Soviet Union, Communism

Police photographs of Zinoviev, taken by the NKVD after his arrest in 1934.

Russia, Prisoner, Joseph Stalin

At the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, there were a total of 201 German military standards and colours, majority...

The defeated banners of the Third Reich

Moscow - Russia, Military Parade, 1945

Mark Zborowski a former Russian secret police spy in Paris, testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. He stated that he was...

Lelia Dallin Testifying Before a Senate Subcommittee

Portrait of Soviet secret police officer Genrikh Yagoda, 1930s. He was executed as part of Stalin's Great Purge.

Chief of soviet internal security, levrenty beria, 1934 or 1935.

Chief of soviet internal security, levrenty beria, 1934 or 1935.

The Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish prisoners of war , by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of...

The Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000.P

Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov , Soviet journalist. As a Pravda correspondent, he travelled to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War, while at the same...

Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov.

Spain, Russia, Former Soviet Union

Archival materials of cases of the NKVD tortured transmits to the President of the Crimean Tatars Majlis Refat Chubarov from the head of the SBU...

Day of Remembrance for Victims of deportation of the Crimean Tatars

May Day on Lenin's Mausoleum Tribune.

May Day on Lenin's Mausoleum Tribune. Artist: Anonymous

Joseph Stalin, Lenin, Propaganda

Beria, g, malenkov, and a,mikoyan on the rostrum on lenin's tomb during a may day demonstration in red square, moscow, ussr, may 1, 1949.

L, beria, g, malenkov, and a,mikoyan on the rostrum on lenin's tomb during a may day demonstration in red square, moscow, ussr, may 1, 1949.

Former Soviet Union

Levrenty beria, 1939.

Levrenty beria, 1939.

The Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish prisoners of war ,by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of...

The Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish prisoners of war.

Katyn Massacre, Russia, Poland

Memorial crosses in Kurapaty forest with a photo with a killed man by the NKVD police during the Stalin regime in the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus on...

Kurapaty forest in the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus

April 1943: Nazi offcials at the exhumation site. The Katyn Massacre of 1940 was w mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union...

The Katyn Massacre

The bodies of the Polish officers in mass graves. The Katyn Massacre of 1940 was w mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union...

The Katyn Massacre

The bodies of the Polish officers in mass graves. The Katyn Massacre of 1940 was w mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union...

The Katyn Massacre

Katyn Massacre, Forest

The bodies of the Polish officers in mass graves. The Katyn Massacre of 1940 was w mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union...

The Katyn Massacre

Katyn Massacre, Forest

Polish President Lech Walesa commemorates the 55th anniversary of the Katyn Genocide.The Katyn Massacre of 1940 was w mass execution of Polish...

The Katyn Massacre

Members of the public discover armes used by former 'Cursed Soldiers' during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

History, Anti-communism

Polish Underground Army WWII reenactors in front of Wawel Castle during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers'...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Man carries the Polish National Flag during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Lady carries 'Death to the enemies of the Motherland' sign during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Membeers of a local 'Solidarity' during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Members of the Polish Army during celebrations of the 'Cursed soldiers' day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Man carries the Polish National Flag during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Polish Flag, Day

Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Membeers of the Forest Service during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Membeers of the Forest Service during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Lady carries 'Death to the enemies of the Motherland' sign during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Polish Underground Army WWII reenactor seen in front of Wawel Castle during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Celebrations of the 'Cursed soldiers' day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

People of all ages seen during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Lady carries 'Death to the enemies of the Motherland' sign during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Members of the public discover armes used by former 'Cursed Soldiers' during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Polish Underground Army WWII reenactors in front of Wawel Castle during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers'...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

People carry Polish National Flags during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...

Cursed Soldiers march in Krakow

Soldiers are seen at the former headquarters of the Soviet interior ministry NKVD on the National Day of Remembrance of Cursed Soldiers in Warsaw,...

Day of the Cursed Soldier Commemoration

Soldiers are seen at the former headquarters of the Soviet interior ministry NKVD on the National Day of Remembrance of Cursed Soldiers in Warsaw,...

Day of the Cursed Soldier Commemoration

Doctors examine the brain of assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, 21st August 1940. Trotsky was murdered by NKVD agent...

Trotsky's Brain

Doctor examines the brain of assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, 21st August 1940. Trotsky was murdered by NKVD agent...

Trotsky's Brain

Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies in hospital in Mexico City, 20th August 1940. He had been attacked by NKVD agent Ramon Mercader with an ice...

Trotsky's Deathbed

Leon Trotsky, Assassination, Mexico

The ice pick used by NKVD agent Ramon Mercader to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Ramón Mercader

The coffin of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, August 1940. He was assassinated by NKVD agent Ramon Mercader with an ice axe....

Trotsky's Funeral

Leon Trotsky, Assassination, Mexico

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