Russia is turning one of its last major spaces for confronting Soviet-era repression into a showcase for state-sanctioned patriotism. The Gulag History Museum in Moscow — long a rare institutional ...

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

The institution was one of the nation's last dedicated to documenting Soviet-era political repression and contained thousands of artifacts from victims, among them letters and personal belongings.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Kremlin gold: 1,000 years of Russian gems and jewels, held at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, from April 15, 2000 through September 4, ...