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Shadows on the Tundra
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Jan 17, 2021
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4-4.5 ⭐️ read! Dalia's story is as important as Anne Franks.
It's her own survival story (told from her own buried papers and published after she died) of her time at 14 years old, being ripped from her home country of Lithuania, to one of Stalin's Gulag labour camps in Siberia, in the Artic. Harrowing forced labour in unimaginable artic conditions for years, with her mother and brother and fellow deportees. Her story is extraordinary and essential reading. I'm ashamed to say I didn't know much about the mass deportations by Stalin during the 1940s and this has been a necessary lesson in history and one that must not be forgotten.
It's her own survival story (told from her own buried papers and published after she died) of her time at 14 years old, being ripped from her home country of Lithuania, to one of Stalin's Gulag labour camps in Siberia, in the Artic. Harrowing forced labour in unimaginable artic conditions for years, with her mother and brother and fellow deportees. Her story is extraordinary and essential reading. I'm ashamed to say I didn't know much about the mass deportations by Stalin during the 1940s and this has been a necessary lesson in history and one that must not be forgotten.
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