Siberia is known to be one of the most sparsely populated regions on Earth. It is because of its harsh climate - primarily long and cold winters when the temperature on average drops to a freezing −13 °F (−25 °C). However, there are people out there who live there despite (or, because of) the lack of civilization.
Today Siberia, which is one-and-a-half times larger than Europe - evokes the horrors of Stalin’s Gulag, the network of forced labour camps that were largely concentrated there.
Оригинал взят у frolovchik в 70 лет назад: немцы под Рязанью Во второй половине ноября фашистские войска вступили на территорию Рязанской области, заняли Скопин, Михайлов, Милославское, много других сел и поселков. Перед их приходом советская власть уничтожала все, что невозможно было эвакуировать,…
Before she was exiled to Siberia, and before she caught malaria in a refugee camp in India, and before she conspiratorially tucked £10 notes into my tiny hands every time I went to visit her in Bradfo
Female Soviet Snipers played an important role in fighting off Nazi Germany, with just one of these women credited with an incredible 309 kills.
Vintage photographs of gay and lesbian couples and their stories.
During the early stages of II World War, or as it is known in Russia and other ex-USSR countries – “The Great Patriotic War”, the Red Army was overstretched to the breaking point. The Nazi war machine, along with its fascist allies, overran Kiev and Minsk, besieged... #bf109 #biplane #bomber
E 19029. When Poland was attacked by the Nazis on 1 September the Red Army also invaded on 17 September 1939. As a result of the Soviet invasion enormous numbers of Polish soldiers and civilians were deported by the NKVD to various locations in the Soviet Union; many ended up in the Gulag camps in Siberia others were send to exile in Kazakhstan
