Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Vladivostok transit camp (1938)
27 Dec 1938 — In the transit camp at Vtoraya Rechka, where prisoners waited for ships to Kolyma, the poet Osip Mandelstam died, probably of typhus, weakened by hunger and cold, months after his second arrest and four years after a poem mocking Stalin first sent him into exile.
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- Gulag forced-labour camps (chapter 5 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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