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What Did Soviet Women Face In Nazi's Brutal Prison Camps... It Didn't Matter They Were Women

During World War II, thousands of women served in the Soviet Red Army as snipers, medics, pilots, and frontline soldiers.
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How this Lithuanian prison (with a dark past) became a stronghold of art and festivals

Since its establishment under the Russian empire, Lukiškės Prison has transformed from a bleak place of torture and murder to a bastion of culture. People attend a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at ...
Hyperallergic

Pussy Rioters Headed to Possibly Lethal Soviet-Era Prison Camps

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova delivering a speech in court during the Pussy Riot trial (screen shot via YouTube) Yekaterina Samutsevich, the band member released from prison earlier this month, spoke to ...
GIGAZINE

Pataley Prison Museum where you can experience prisoners life in the former Soviet era

One of the Baltic States, the capital of the Republic of EstoniaTallinnThere is a prison made in the 19th century. Now it seems that the role of a prison is finished and tourists are visiting as a ...
Reuters

Mock prison gives Latvians glimpse of Soviet-era hardships

LIEPAJA, Latvia (Reuters) - "Face the wall and stop looking around!" a prison guard shouts at inmates in a cell at a prison inside Karosta, a military naval base in Latvia. As people line up along the ...