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Hometown Village

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The History of Saklin

Saklin used to be the home of a csaris penal colony, and anton chekof once described it as i swear he was wrong, though, it's a beautiful place to live. Throughout its history, control of saklin has passed back and forth between two powerful empires, russia and japan. At ta time, the people used to colk a country by parale like although the environment was frigid,. sokland was valuable because it was rich with natural resources like coal, timber and fish. But japan needed to bring in cheap labor to extract those resources, which is how korean sended up on salan.

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