In the recent decade, multiple of documents were disclosed about the history of the Stalinist period and about the Gulags too.It may appeat that the only task left is to publish them. Actually, however, historians are facing new difficulties concerning "the second wave of revolutionary violence."

The gulags were not only institutions of work and punishment they they had a particular role during Wold War II as well. This document includes a report to L. Beriya was published at Forum-Intrnet 1996 No. 5.