EditorialMuseum visitors listen to Stalin victims’ names in the memory hall of a gulag museum in Moscow on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)
EditorialA memorial at the site of a gulag where prisoners labored until 1957, near Norilsk, Russia, Nov. 10, 2017. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialAt her home in Magadan, Russia, a former gulag prisoner holds a picture of her work brigade at a forced labor camp in Kolyma on Nov. 29, 2019. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)
EditorialLooking out from the apartment block where Yevgeniya B. Shasheva, 70, lives in Nizhny Odes, in northern Russia, Dec. 15, 2020. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)
EditorialPolice officers in riot gear confront protesters during a demonstration in support of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Jan. 31, 2021. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialOccupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Recreation of gulag barracks where people on forced labor camps lived. 1941. Occupation Museum of Latvia. Riga.