Devil's islands.(cruel history of Russia's Solovetsky Islands)

From: National Review | Date: November 11, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Thirty thousand political prisoners died on the once-placid and scenic Solovetsky Islands during the Communist oppression. The truth about the area's bloody past only came to light during the Gorbachev years. The islands are now a vacation spot.

IT may have voted for Yeltsin, but Archangel is still a very Soviet sort of place. There's a Lenin in the main square and another on the way out of town, just to make sure. Seven hundred miles north of Moscow, this once rich port city of 400,000 seems, at a glance, trapped in Brezhnev's dereliction -- though there are hints of a commercial ...

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