GULag and totalitarianism
- Exemplary figures reported by Gariwo
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- Cambodia
- Claire Ly the Cambodian genocide testimony in "Back from Hell"
- Dith Pran reporter, photographer and human rights activist
- China L.
- Liu Xiaobo Writer and soul of Charter 08, the manifesto for the rule of law in communist China
- Hungary
- Ágnes Heller Hungarian philosopher, founder and most prominent exponent of the “Budapest school”
- North Korea
- Kang Chol-hawan a Korean journalist who escaped from a North Korean gulag
- Poland K.
- Janusz Korczak Educator, he followed the Jewish children into the Warsaw Ghetto and in deportation
- URSS
- Nadezhda Mandel'shtam Wife of the dissident poet Osip Mandel'shtam
- USSR
- Anna Akhmatova the poet of dissent
- Lydia Chukovskaya anti-stalinist writer who published her work despite heavy Soviet censorship
- Yuli Daniel Russian educator who struggled for prisoners' rights in the Soviet Union
- Pavel Florenskij profoundly thoughtful philosopher killed for his personal expression
- Yuri Galanskov the poet of Majakovskji Square
- Alexander Ginzburg journalist and defender of human rights
- Petro Grigorenko anti-Stalinist Soviet General declared "mentally ill" for openly resisting Stalinism
- Vasily Grossman in his "Life and Fate" he denounced the crimes of both communism and nazism
- Bernard Grzywacz and Anna Szyszko two Poles who survived the GULag
- Gustav Herling
- Osip Mandel'shtam Russian poet who clashed with ideological conformism in Soviet society
- Anatoly Marchenko was a Soviet dissident, author, and human rights campaigner
- Lev Emmanuilovic Razgon Russian writer and victim of Stalinism who published the account of his experiences
- Jacques Rossi French spy and victim of Stalin's great purge who published the GULag Handbook, a testimony of the GULag experience
- Andrei Sakharov he defended peace and human dignity in the GULag
- Varlam Shalamov anti-stalinist poet who published the tale of his imprisonment in Siberia.
- Andrei Sinyavsky he wrote stories, short novels and fiercely satirical essays on the state of affairs in the Soviet Union
- Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn author of "The GULag Archipelago"
- Wales
- Gareth Jones Welsh journalist who revealed the Holodomor
- Stories of Italians in the GULag
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- Roberto Anderson the romantic Communist, a scion of Rome's haute bourgeoisie, who emigrated into the USSR to build socialism and was shot dead by Stalin in 1938
- Vincenzo Baccalà and Maria Pia Piccioni he emigrated to the Soviet Union; he was arrested and shot because of his revolutionary activities
- Andrea Bertazzoni the lucky "comrade" who escaped all purges of Stalin's, but not those of the PCI
- Dante Corneli a anti-fascist italian writer, he was imprisoned in a gulag for ten years
- Gino De Marchi and Luciana De Marchi he has been a film director, an Italian anti-fascism and a victim of Stalinism
- Edmondo Peluso he was a journalist in many socialist editorial offices; he was interrogated and tortured
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