Word: solovetskii
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...post as Commissar, Genrikh Yagoda can by fiat sentence any Russian to exile in Siberia or elsewhere, or to imprisonment for up to five years. Since it is unusual for a prisoner to live as long as five years in certain notorious Soviet prisons, notably that of Solovetskii in the White Sea, most Moscovites realize that Comrade Yagoda still retains effective powers of life and death...
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