Human rights in the Soviet Union were severely limited. The Soviet Union was a totalitarian state from 1927 until 1953 and a one-party state until 1990. Freedom of speech was suppressed and dissent wa
St. Vladimir's Cathedral in Astrakhan, which served as a bus station in Soviet times.
January 10, 1973. Jewish refuseniks demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the right to emigrate to Israel.
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The Gulag was a system of labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from
A punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, 1945
Genrikh Yagoda (middle) inspecting the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal, 1935. Behind his right shoulder is Nikita Khrushchev.
The fence at the old Gulag camp in Perm-36, founded in 1943, turned into a museum.
Central shop in Norilsk built by prisoners of the Norillag