USSR

Photographer’s Powerful Images From the End of the Brutal Gulag System

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Photographer’s Powerful Images From the End of the Brutal Gulag System

A prisoner eats soup, left. No escaping the Gulag, right. The Gulags were a repressive system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union that cost the lives of millions of people. Photographer Barry Lewis arrived in Siberia in 1991 during the glasnost era when the USSR embraced a more open attitude. Lewis was allowed … Read more

Dyatlov Pass Incident Remains Earth’s Most Terrifying Unsolved Hiking Puzzle

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Dyatlov Pass Incident Remains Earth’s Most Terrifying Unsolved Hiking Puzzle

The Dyatlov Pass incident is an intriguing unsolved mystery from the last century. A 1959 winter expedition in the Ural Mountains for a group of Soviet hikers turned deadly. Nine young adventurers, led by Igor Dyatlov, perished under a shroud of mystery. Scattered near their abandoned tent, some lay barefoot, others were strangely stripped, and … Read more