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Saint Petersburg

Yelena Posnik

Born in Russia in 1924, she was sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag in 1945 as a twenty-one year old for speaking to German soldiers as a German tea...

Jiří Bezděk

Left for USSR as Czech teacher in 1927. Arrested in 1930. Deported to Solovetsky Islands and later Siberia. Returned to Czechoslovakia in 1936. Per...

Alexander Snovsky - Dead Track Prisoner

He never forgot and did everything he could to make sure it would not be forgotten. Arrested 1949 in Leningrad, sent to build a railway in northern...

Yevgenia Varasova

Dvacátá léta dvacátého století, Praha. Černobílá fotografie: uprostřed Jaroslav Heyrovský, vynálezce polarografie. Muž, který se o tři dekády pozdě...

Erika Palmipuu

Born in 1934 in Estonia. In 1941 deported to Kirovsk region in USSR. After 5 years she escaped, but in 1950 was sent back. She came back to Estonia...

The Magnificent One – Nikolai Braun and his poems against the invasion of 1968

This is the story of a Russian who faced Soviet tanks alone, being even lonelier than the globally renowned eight brave protesters. And he paid for...