Letters from Stalin's Russia

2008/03/30 Filed in: NEWS
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Writing letters to the "West" during Stalin's Reign of Terror was a crime. Receiving a letter resulted in arrest without trial. Entire families were sentenced to prison camps in Stalin's vast Gulag. The survival rate was one winter. Millions died.
Remarkably, the world knows little of these catastrophic events. Yet 463 letters, written from the prisons of the Gulag and from home villages arrived in a tiny town in the Canadian prairies. These letters verify a subversive network of mail delivery during one of the most horrific eras in human history. Written by Russian Mennonites, the letters confirm the strength of the human spirit in the bleakest circumstances. http://www.gulagletters.com/