The gulag. It’s not my favorite topic as the details are rather unpleasant. But Kazakhstan is a post-Soviet country that endured a great deal of the human suffering, forced labor, and famines,…
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Remembering the Horrors: ALZhIR Gulag Camp
The Soviet Union was known for many things, communism, Stalin, the color red, but one of the scariest things as a person living in the Soviet Union at the time would have…
ALZHIR: The Akmolinsk Camp of Wives of Traitors to the Motherland
Recently we returned from a trip up north to Astana (the capital of Kazakhstan). There, we went to the ballet, saw the main attractions of the city, and visited the university that…
