Stalin's forgotten victims stuck in the gulag Fifty years after the death of the dictator, more than 300 ex-prisoners languish in blizzard-swept Vorkuta in the Arctic Circle. Tom Parfitt reports

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 2, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

FIFTY years to the week after Stalin died, gulag survivors remain stuck in bleak outposts of the former Soviet Union.

As Russians debate the legacy of the man who ruled for a generation, former prisoners in towns such as Vorkuta have little to celebrate.

Twelve-hundred miles north-east of Moscow, train No 42 crosses the Arctic Circle and bursts from the forest into the blizzard-swept wastleland of this mining town - a huddle of smokestacks and apartment blocks - where the winter temperature falls to minus .50C.

It was once the heart of Stalin's gulags, built by men and women banished for ...

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