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The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag

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Estonian Prisoners of War - A Different Kind of Population

There were real resistors such as Ukrainian forest brothers and Estonian forest brothers who actually fought the KGB. The Ukrainian partisan army finally was crushed only in the 50s. So it's an interesting development because it's a different kind of population. They knew that they were there for a reason and they hated the system. Unlike former Bolsheviks who ended up in Gulag and said, why am I here? I'm innocent. Comrade Stalin doesn't know about me. I'm sure I'm innocent."

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