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Russia and the Gulag: Putin is fighting for state control over how Soviet horrors are remembered

Army soldiers digging mass graves to try and show that the state wasn’t responsible for the dead. A historian who vehemently disagrees behind bars on charges that many believe are false. Organisations that support him being attacked by an omnipotent power.

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Prof. Palmer July 13, 2020 GULag, Historians, Legacy, Memory, Museum of the History of the GULag, Stalin in the News, Vladimir Putin
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