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KOLYMA REGION
Gulag prisoners built this town during WW2, it grew into a USSR mining centre of over 10,000 people; before the end of the Soviet era brought its decline in 1996- Quote of the Day by Varlam Shalamov: 'Friendship is not born in conditions of need or trouble...' - What 17 years in Soviet Gulag camps taught the Russian writer about friendship
- Quote of the Day by Russian writer Varlam Shalamov, who survived 17 years in Soviet Gulag camps: ‘A human being survives by his ability to forget…’
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