30 years ago: Here’s how people celebrated the Fall of the Berlin Wall (photos)
In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down after nearly 30 years of separating East Berlin from the West
Stalin had Gulags, Turkey has Courts
According to the "Committee to Protect Journalists", Turkey is the world's top jailer of journalists
August 23: European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism & Nazism
August 23 was chosen to coincide with the date of the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, a 1939 non-aggression pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany