Monday, August 23, 2010

SOVIET TRIUMPH IN THE FAR EAST



Monument to Soviet triumphalism of the sort that lends itself to contemporary value as a skateboard park. It was not until the 1920s that the red army finally overcame the whites and Japanese occupiers. Stalin purged the city of foreigners-his multicultural policy of murder, imprisonment and deportation) and the northern suburbs became a way station for thousands of political prisoners destined for the one way journey to the gold mines of kolyma.

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