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The remains of Stalin's gulag railroad – a photo essay
2018-10-29
[GUARDIAN] In Russia’s Arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most notorious gulag projects lie largely forgotten.

From 1947 until 1953, tens of thousands of prisoners, many of them "politicals" convicted for "anti-Soviet acts", were shipped to northern Russia to lay a railroad through some of the harshest terrain on Earth.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  So many broken eggs and still no omelette
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2018-10-29 16:32  

#1  It's Al-Guardian, so they reminisce some.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2018-10-29 08:15  

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