Joseph Stalin voted Third Best Russian

Joseph Stalin, notorious dictator credited by many historians with the deaths of millions of Russians, was voted third best Russian by over 50 millions citizens.In a recent poll sponsored by Russiya, a major...

You Better Work: Siberian Prison Beauty Contest

A fascinatingly surreal story: female inmates in a Siberian prison engage in an annual beauty contest in order to demonstrate eligibility for parole. The stakes involved make Girlicious and Next Top Model look...

N. Korea: 120 Prisoners Escape From Gulag

I ran across this translated post by blogger TigerLikesRooster from the Daily NK. Since I don't read or speak Korean, I am grateful that this blogger shared such a compelling story from behind the barbwired worker's paradise of North Korea."120 prisoners escaped en masse from...

A Dissident Birthday

"It’s the birthday of Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born in Kislovodsk, Russia (1918). He grew up a committed communist, and never questioned the party line. He even brought a copy of Das Kapital along...

Defend human rights in North Korea

Chosun Journal is an excellent site that relies partly on its readers to provide links to North Korean-related news stories, essays et cetera.  Publisher Edward Kim's introductory essay "Eyes on the Brick" is...

Japanese Soldier Resurfaces in Ukraine

Just when his family gave up all hope, the MIA shows up.

Gulags for political dissidents in the U.S. ?

A $385 million dollar contract has been awarded for the construction of  detention camps in the U.S..  Will the inmates be American subversives?

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