Donald Weber Photographer VII Photo

In Siberia

Oh yes, it’s hard to believe, standing here in the tender sunshine, that this land is drenched in blood. Old blood, foreign blood. Every year it’s the elk hunters’ lazy tracker-dogs who manage to dig up the bones of the forgotten dead, despoiled from their pretty meadows.

No, it’s the peace of the graveyard, the graveyard of History itself.

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Lenin, Vladimir Illich

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Kirov, Sergei Mironovich. Assassinated 1 December, 1934

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Gravedigger

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Anichkov, Vladimir Alexandrovich. One of the last political prisoners

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A typical daily ration in the Gulag was 750 grams of bread

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Enough to keep a prisoner alive for three months

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When grass came up, every blade might be put in a tin and boiled and eaten. It’s long term effects were deadly

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Many were taken to the death cell and shot in the back of the neck with a TT eight-shot automatic

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