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2 days ago · The Russian penal system, despite reforms and a reduction in prison population, informally or formally continues many practices endemic to the Gulag system, including forced labor, inmates policing inmates, and prisoner intimidation.
3 days ago · Marco Polo (born c. 1254, Venice [Italy]—died January 8, 1324, Venice) was a Venetian merchant and adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years. His Il milione (“The Million”), known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, is a classic of travel literature.
23 hours ago · Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; c. 1162 – August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, [a] was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongol tribes, he launched a series of military campaigns, conquering large parts of China and Central Asia .
23 hours ago · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (a Soviet Army officer who became a prisoner for a decade in the Gulag system) presents in The Gulag Archipelago his view of the timeline of all the Leninist and Stalinist purges (1918–1956), in which the 1936–1938 purge may have been simply the one that got the most attention from people in a position to record its ...
4 days ago · It was founded as the fortress of Tsaritsyn in 1589 to protect newly acquired Russian territory along the Volga. The city, later called Stalingrad, was the site of one of the decisive battles of World War II.
5 days ago · American Prisoners of War: Firsthand Accounts from the Civil War to Vietnam Humanities Texas March 2015
23 hours ago · AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Judges at the Kosovo tribunal in The Hague sentenced former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) member Pjeter Shala on Tuesday to 18 years in prison for war crimes committed during ...
