[Fiji Hill]

While flying through Russia's far east, a Polar Airlines flight touched down unexpectedly on a frozen Kolyma river

The Kolyma valley is where millions died in Gulag camps during Stalin's purges.

[ought-six]

There is a very good book by Tim Tzouliadis called “The Forsaken.” It is about the thousands of Americans who were duped into going to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to work in the “Workers’ Paradise.” Most ended up being imprisoned or murdered by the Soviet government.