“I don’t know about you, but all my life, I’ve been hearing my parents say: ‘Be careful, don’t attract unnecessary attention, it’s dangerous. And, besides, we’re simple people — we don’t decide anything.’ My parents are wonderful people,” says Yury Dud in his film Kolyma: The Home of Our Fear. “But I wanted to understand: Where does the older generation’s fear come from? Why are they convinced that acts of courage, no matter how small, are bound to be punished?”

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