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Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time
"A history of Soviet failure written in crumbling cement; a monument to a system which simply ran out of steam". Norilsk, 1994 Owen...
Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time
"A history of Soviet failure written in crumbling cement; a monument to a system which simply ran out of steam".
Norilsk, 1994
Owen Bennett Jones introduces a despatch from Kevin Connolly in the city of Norilsk in the Arctic Circle. He met people who had suffered and survived there for decades under the USSR - and seemed likely to spend the rest of their lives in this remote outpost.
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