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May 06, 2007 Baltic Times The Bronze Soldier monument, whose relocation at the end of April sparked the worst civil unrest Estonia has seen in years and led to a major diplomatic row with Russia, has now become a magnet for Finns and other tourists, Postimees Online reports. The monument was set up and opened to the public in its new location in Tallinn’s Garrison Cemetery on April 30. When the Bronze Soldier stood in its original location, it didn’t attract interest from foreign tourists, but now visitors to the capital are rushing out to get their photos taken in...

The history of the Soviet gulag has been told before, most powerfully in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's epic, "The Gulag Archipelago," published in the 1970s. Yet so immense is this history, so vast was the whirlwind of terror that swept over the Soviet Union in the 1930s, that much is only now coming to light. The network of prison camps documented by Solzhenitsyn, we are learning, formed only part of the gulag system. There was a second or "hidden" gulag as well that destroyed the lives of millions of Soviet citizens.