Wednesday 24 September 2008

Stalin's death camp survivors shed light on Gulag

The Kolyma region in Russia's Far East could have been known just for its vast mineral wealth and abundant fisheries. But the forbidding steppes became a testimony to one of the country's darkest periods. Isolated and remote, they were a major transit centre for prisoners sent to Gulag labour camps in the Kolyma area during Joseph Stalin's purges. Russia Today...

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