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...
Wednesday 24 September 2008
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