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PYOTR BELOV, Tverskoi Boulevard 11, Moscow. Twenty-two allegorical works about Stalin's reign of terror, by the theater artist Pyotr Belov (1929-88). Among the most damning: one portraying antlike columns of Gulag prisoners emerging from a pack of Belomor cigarettes -- a reference to the forced labor that built the Belomor canal -- and another showing Stalin up to his boots in a sea of dandelions imprinted with the faces of his victims...
...Entire Lives." Dr. Julius Margolin, of Tel Aviv, whom the Russians arrested in 1940 for "breaking passport regulations" while visiting his native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told], Camp...
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