Fantastic time when relevance counted

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… a big role in my life, also recorded the stories of former Gulag prisoners. But still, he was more into collecting …

Inhuman conditions in Russia

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… it was fortunate for him because he would have landed in a Gulag – he was an enemy for the Soviets. We didn’t make it …

Arrest and trial

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… you were sentenced for?”E.T.G.: For twenty five years in Gulag camp and for five years we were not allowed to come …

The partisan arrest and punishment

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… were sentenced later together, we were given 25 years in Gulag camps, but it was no difference for us 20 or 50 years. …

Multinational region of Kraslicko - fertile ground for people from the Rumanian mountains

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… had the largest farm. In the end they called my father a gulag. You know, what it was like, but he never minded it. …

Family

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… Union in as early as 1938. (And later they were sent to the gulags, and then to the army? Or what happened to them?) …

First combat operations at Kiev

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… to join the Czechoslovak army. First of all, life in the Gulag was terrible, really terrible, and although we knew …

Refusal of Soviet Citizenship

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… know where my godfather had ended up. Probably in some gulag or I don’t know. He didn’t send any message. Only one: …

My task was to retain the soul in the fellow prisoners

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… sure that it was much easier to me passing ten years in the Gulags because I had my precise task. I had my avocation. I …

Looking back at the 1950s

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… I had two classmates, and they took their fathers to the Gulag. Because they were pre-war emigrants, Russian …