Ex Ukrainian NKVD boss, V. Balitsky portrait in uniform but without hat; grainy print, reproducted from Soviet newspaper pic.
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...
Soviet poster depicting Lavrentiy Beria head of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police from 1940 until his death.
Agent Ramon Mercader in hospital in Mexico City after his arrest for the attempted assassination of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky with an ice...
Agent Ramon Mercader in hospital in Mexico City after his arrest for the attempted assassination of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky with an ice...
Photo taken on September 28 shows the forested area near Moscow known as Kommunarka where historians belive Stalin's NKVD secret police killed and...
Mark Zborowski a former Russian secret police spy in Paris, testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. He stated that he was...
Portrait of Soviet secret police officer Genrikh Yagoda, 1930s. He was executed as part of Stalin's Great Purge.
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...
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov , shown talking to republican Spanish officials. As a Pravda correspondent, he travelled to Spain to cover the Spanish...
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.
Lavrentiy Beria Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security,...
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...
Beria was the longest-lived and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after World War...
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 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 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 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...
Polish President Lech Walesa commemorates the 55th anniversary of the Katyn Genocide.The Katyn Massacre of 1940 was w mass execution of Polish...
Members of the public discover armes used by former 'Cursed Soldiers' during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed...
Polish Underground Army WWII reenactors in front of Wawel Castle during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers'...
Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...
Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...
Man carries the Polish National Flag during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...
Lady carries 'Death to the enemies of the Motherland' sign during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied...
Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...
Membeers of a local 'Solidarity' during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...
Members of the Polish Army during celebrations of the 'Cursed soldiers' day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...
Man carries the Polish National Flag during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...
Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...
Membeers of the Forest Service during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...
Membeers of the Forest Service during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...
Lady carries 'Death to the enemies of the Motherland' sign during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied...
Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...
Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...
Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...
Polish Underground Army WWII reenactor seen in front of Wawel Castle during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed...
Celebrations of the 'Cursed soldiers' day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...
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...
Celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish...
Lady carries 'Death to the enemies of the Motherland' sign during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied...
Members of the public discover armes used by former 'Cursed Soldiers' during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed...
Polish Underground Army WWII reenactors in front of Wawel Castle during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers'...
People carry Polish National Flags during celebrations of the 'Cursed Soldiers' Day in Krakow. The 'Cursed soldiers' applied to a variety of Polish...
Soldiers are seen at the former headquarters of the Soviet interior ministry NKVD on the National Day of Remembrance of Cursed Soldiers in Warsaw,...
Soldiers are seen at the former headquarters of the Soviet interior ministry NKVD on the National Day of Remembrance of Cursed Soldiers in Warsaw,...
Doctors examine the brain of assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, 21st August 1940. Trotsky was murdered by NKVD agent...
Doctor examines the brain of assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, 21st August 1940. Trotsky was murdered by NKVD agent...
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...
The coffin of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, August 1940. He was assassinated by NKVD agent Ramon Mercader with an ice axe....
Policemen in front of the house of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacan, Mexico City, after Trotsky was fatally wounded by an NKVD agent,...
Spetssvodka NKVD in Yaroslavl region with the text of the student essays 6th grade middle school Prechistenskaya Alexei Sokolov, 'How I spent my...
Leon Trotsky lays dying in hospital in Mexico City after the exiled Russian Bolshevik leader was savagely attacked and fatally wounded at his home in...
Muzeon - a sculpture park in Moscow, where old communist monuments have been placed. Russia, May 2013. Pictured: a detail of a monument to Felix...
Young protester wears a t-shirt 'Cursed soldiers 1944-1963' at the annual 7th Katyn March that passed through the streets of Kracow today in...
