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I am a hostage of the north’: Trapped in a post-Gulag Arctic city
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| March 11, 2020
| Alec Luhn
Posted on 03/12/2020 11:18:52 AM PDT by tlozo
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:18:52 AM PDT
by
tlozo
To: tlozo
No worries. Grrrrreta will ensure it gets warmer there too.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:20:59 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: tlozo
... Vladimir Putin's quest to conquer the warming Arctic... They never miss a chance, do they? The author might want to be out of fist range if he puts it this way to Ms Ivanova. Just wait a while, my dear - soon this will be like Miami Beach! With bears...
To: tlozo
When the Soviet Union died, so did a lot of plans such as hers.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:29:42 AM PDT
by
LouieFisk
To: tlozo
the fastest dying city in Russia.
Just call it “the Russian Cleveland”
Easier to say.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:29:57 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: tlozo
Vorkuta !!!! A City of the future, where more people are under the ground than above it.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:30:24 AM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
( #ReasonableDemocratsforTrump. Where are you?)
To: tlozo
“Lyudmila Ivanova and her fiance came to the Arctic from a village in southern Russia in 1978 in search of a better life.”
A better life in the Arctic? Geez where the hell did these people live that they believed the Arctic was a better place?
To: tlozo
Soon coming to a lot of North Dakota “boom towns”.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:31:26 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: tlozo
LMAO, if Putin thinks the northern route to the Pacific is going to be permanently open due to “global warming” and is actually basing investments on that, he is stupider than I thought.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:33:02 AM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: Bringbackthedraft
They’ll have the last laugh when SMOD takes out everybody living on the surface.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:33:42 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: billyboy15
It was the Soviet Union. Living in the arctic might have been a better life if it paid you enough to not have to stand on the bread lines.
To: BenLurkin
Was rampant crime mentioned as a problem?
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:35:08 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosoper)
To: tlozo
What sort of person would move to the Arctic in search of a better life? I suspect they might want to check into an asylum instead.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:42:45 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: tlozo
Lyudmila Ivanova and her fiance came to the Arctic from a village in southern Russia in 1978 in search of a better life. Their destination was Vorkuta, a coal-mining city 90 miles north of the Arctic circle.Vorkuta, which means place of bears...
That should have been a red flag right there.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:43:17 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: tlozo
Vorkuta was the site of a notorious Gulag camp that was the site of a strike by inmates in 1953. Joseph Scholmer, a German Communist who fell out with the party leadership and John Noble, an American businessman swept into the Gulag describe their experiences at Vorkuta and the strike in their memoirs: Scholmer's Vorkuta (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954) and Noble's I Was a Slave in Russia (New York: Devin-Adair, 1958).
To: tlozo
In April, he promised that the Northern Sea Route between Murmansk and Vladivostok would grow to rival the Suez canal as a shipping lane.Putin lives in fantasy-land.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:43:58 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: billyboy15
Russia has/had some very rough places to live.
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posted on
03/12/2020 11:44:13 AM PDT
by
sport
To: Fiji Hill
I knew John Noble and he was a lonely voice about the horrors of the Soviet slave labor/gulag systems until Solzenitsyn, then Avram Shifrin, and a few other victims of those “camps” spoke out, wrote their memoirs, and in the case of Avram (a late friend of mine, I helped him on one of his congressional testimonies on the hidden Soviet military budget within the civilian budget), testifying before Congressional committees (Shifrin’s “Slave Labor Camps in the USSR”, VOL. 1-3, 1972, Sen. Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen. Judiciary Comm).
To: Boogieman
Towards the end of the Soviet Union, the big enticement to work up north was being paid in hard currency. Pounds, Deutschmarks, Dollars. With that access to the special stores.
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posted on
03/12/2020 12:14:57 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: Fred Hayek
Ah yes, I heard about the “special stores” in Poland where you could buy Western goods, but only if you had real (non-Communist) currency.
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