Word: dalstroy
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...answered the Russian thoughtfully, "Yes, there are. There are many very funny stories." "Well," cried the Poles, "tell us one, Vyacheslav. We won't repeat it. You can't get into any trouble with us." The Russian thought for a long time, then he said, "Dalstroy." "Dalstroy," cried the Poles. "That's not a funny story. That's one of your biggest slave-labor projects in Siberia." "That's right," said the Russian, "but some tellers of very funny stories helped to build...
...Soviet slave-labor camps contain not less than 12,000,000 men, women & children. But he cites other estimates whose figures have soared as high as 30 million. Two of the biggest slave-labor camps: Solovetski Island in the White Sea, which has been in business since 1923, and Dalstroy's camps in the Kolyma valley in eastern Siberia...
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