Reindeer at the End of the World – Bathsheba Demuth
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Apocalypse
In 1932, Carl Lux took an accidental bullet while surveying foxes and reindeer on the Chaun River in Chukotko's northwest. As he bled to death, so Soviet reports go, he begged his fellow revolutionaries to continue their work in the most remote places inhabited by natives - no matter the victims. In the was bumping north, Alex tells me that many of the victims who followed Carl were Chukchi. We did not want to live in the way the Soviet said was correct, Alex explains. To do so was not thinkable. Another appeal of the apocalypse, proclaiming it, is not an act of supplication, but of certainty. Such certainty can
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