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...daughter Lena Gavrilova, 42, is a teacher, and she believes it is important to understand the past. She only recently discovered what happened to her paternal grandfather, she says. He was denounced as a kulak in 1930 and was sent to Solovetski Island in the far north. "He died there. We don't even know where his grave is." She continues, "This is our history, and we need to respect it. We need to learn from it. But our politicians have forgotten that. I don't know for sure what's going on in Chechnya, the politics of it. When...
Gennadi Khomyakov, a veteran of the "isolator" camp on the Solovetski Islands. Standard punishment in wintertime was to send prisoners barefoot down 273 ice-covered steps to haul water from a frozen lake; their feet usually froze into icy stumps . . . and most of the victims died. One crazed fellow prisoner, to escape the logging detail, cut off one finger but was sent back to work. Losing his head completely, he chopped off his entire left hand, and collapsed unconscious. He was later shot for "malicious shirking of work...
...biggest list yet compiled. Examining all estimates, Dallin concludes that 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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