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Archangel, 2005.
In the summer of 2005 I travelled with my sister to Archangel, just below the Arctic circle in northern Russia. We went on a mission to find out information about our grandfather, who was arrested there in 1930.
We visited the nearby Island of Solovetsky, where Stalin built his first concentration camp in the 1920’s. There, we began to feel the real significance of the countless number of people’s lives destroyed by the atrocities, of which our grandfather was just one.
This significance lives on today in the families of the disappeared and killed.
Marina was the caretaker for the gulag at Muksalma. She lived in isolation in the room in the gulag building at the end of a 10 km dirt track, only accessible by foot or mountain bike.
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