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Where the Russian Gulag Once Thrived, Life Remains Isolated
The antique Soviet Tu-134 touched down at Salekhard airport in a slicing crosswind, bunny-hopped twice, then juddered to a halt in front of the terminal with a macho squeeze of brakes. Outside the airport taxi drivers waited in their vehicles, waiting in a head-lit swirl of exhaust to close in on the single emerging foreign passenger. From the usual post-Soviet police lineup of grinning crooks, I chose the only one who hadn’t bothered to get out of his car. He was a mash-faced octogenarian with a bulbous alcoholic’s nose who introduced himself as “Ivanych” — short for Alexander Ivanovich. The sky was deep black and sprinkled with stars of extraordinary brightness. It was 4 p.m.
Flying across the Russian Arctic at night, in winter, I experienced an eerie sense of having flown off the edge of the world. As the plane lurched northward, the spots of light that marked towns and roads dwindled to black. North of the 65th parallel nothing was visible but a dreamscape of snowbound, moonlit forest stretching unbroken not just to the horizon but beyond, apparently forever.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn named the network of prison camps that stretched across the Soviet Union the Gulag Archipelago. But in truth, all of Russia is like
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History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)
Stalinist era of Soviet history
"Stalinist era" redirects here. For other uses, see Stalinist era (disambiguation).
The history of the Soviet Union between 1927 and 1953, commonly referred to as the Stalin Era or the Stalinist Era, covers the period in Soviet history from the establishment of Stalinism through victory in the Second World War and down to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Stalin sought to destroy his enemies while transforming Soviet society with central planning, in particular through the forced collectivization of agriculture and rapid development of heavy industry. Stalin consolidated his power within the party and the state and fostered an extensive cult of personality. Soviet secret-police and the mass-mobilization of the Communist Party served as Stalin's major tools in molding Soviet society. Stalin's methods in achieving his goals, which included party purges, ethnic cleansings, political repression of the general population, and forced collectivization, led to millions of deaths: in Gulaglabor camps[1] and during famine.[2][3]
World War II, known as "the Great Patriotic War" by Soviet historians, devastated much of the USSR, with about one out of every three World War II
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