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Along Russia's 'road of bones,' relics of suffering and despair

By Andrew Higgins
New York Times·
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Along Russia's 'road of bones,' relics of suffering and despair
Along Russia's 'road of bones,' relics of suffering and despair

The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of prisoners to the work camps of Stalin's gulag. The ruins of that cruel era are still visible today.

The prisoners, hacking their way through insect-infested summer swamps and winter ice fields, brought the road, and the

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