But he ended up in Kolyma, a notoriously harsh network of labour ... when Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev declared an amnesty for Gulag prisoners, in the post-Stalin "thaw".

Bones of tortured prisoners. Kolyma Gulag, USSR (Nikolai Nikitin, Tass). (NA) NOTE: The following post is largely adapted from last year's November 7 post on the same subject. As detailed in my ...