down Communism in the USSR in 1989, the Research Center was founded in Moscow to find out the victims of the gulag (internment camps of the regime). The greatest moment of repression took place in 1937 and lasted two years. Two million people were arrested and sent to the gulag, among these 200 000 were killed by firing squad. It is not yet known the reasons for which Stalin, who was head of the powerful office in the country, unleashed this massacre. In the 70 some dissenters began to collect the testimonies of the family and the few survivors to try to reconstruct the history of these people. Were printed sheets of the illegal "Samisdat" that were circulated in the country. Then in 1989, they tried to gather such evidence, the objects that were found in the gulag. The new Russia, with a 1991 law reinstated as all the innocent victims of Communist terror, which had suffered arrests and killings since 1917. In the 60s and 70s declined internment and executions in the gulag, but the intellectuals began to wonder, what happened? The Research Centre was finally able to see the documents of the KGB and even follow the routes victims. The prisoners had to sign their indictment. Otherwise they were tortured. No known data from 1917 to 1920, while from 1921 to 1953 (the year of Stalin's death), 13 million people were interned in the gulag and shot 750 000. The vast majority of inmates died from the terrible conditions of the camps. In the two years of great repression (1937-39), about 2 million people, 110 thousand were part of the leadership of the party and army. For those condemned municipalities created a troika of three local people (the secretary of the party, the intelligence service and the prosecutor) to make a finding of guilt on lists of names, the processes in this case occurred. As for the class managerial jobs were held for ten minutes per person, before the Supreme Court or Military Court.
