Battle of Kiev
(video)… that was my baptism. But I was happy to have escaped the gulag, so I didn't have any fear. I had a superb anti-tank …
We didn't know anything about the father for seven years
(audio)… for seven years, nobody knew he existed, he was in that gulag for seven years. He returned after seven years, but …
Introduction to Miloslav Vašina, a signatory of Charter 77
(audio)… It was the banned Russian writer Solzhenitsyn who wrote the Gulag Archipelago." …
Trial emigration
(video)… thought that they might start loading us on trains to the gulags again. He was phobic about it. So in the summer of …
The runaway and arrest of Štěpán Bunzák
(audio)… So they pointed their bayonets at us and put us in the Gulag.” …
Invasion In 1968
(audio)… It is difficult to say where they ended up, maybe in a gulag or somewhere else.” …
Childhood fear of snitches (1950's)
(video)… been children. We exactly knew what concentration camps and gulags were, how did the [Russian] revolution go, the …
Years of Thaw
(audio)… craze. We knew the circumstances, we knew a lot about gulags and political trials and we gradually awake to it and …
Those who have been through something themselves will help.
(video)… of her girls died of disease, and her son was taken to the gulag. She was also a Jewish lady. She somehow held on, and …
It was the month of Brezhnev’s death, it was like a ritual sacrifice, when the leader died, they started to arrest dissidents
(video)… could be that same “1984”, or Solzhenitsyn’s novels, “The Gulag Archipelago”, like that; i.e. it was also dangerous. …