Back To The Gulag
Former political prisoners have held other reunions since the Soviet system collapsed, but this one was special. The survivors were gathered for the formal dedication of the camp’s rebuilt main barracks as a memorial to those who perished in the gulag – somewhere between 12 million and 20 million people over 74 years. Like Buchenwald and Auschwitz before it, Perm-36 is being transformed into a place of learning and silent prayer-the first such memorial at a former prison camp in a nation still struggling to come to terms with the legacy of Stalinism....