Magadan - Russia’s Auschwitsz

"The ghosts of communism still seem to haunt Magadan."

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Russia Picture by Rob Lilwall
Travel story: Magadan - Russia’s Auschwitsz

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I have now been in Magadan, NE Russia, for just over one week, making preparations to fight my way on a bicycle through the encroaching Siberian winter - the first leg on a 15,000 mile ride back home.For me, Magadan has seemed a most haunting city. The strange presence of sorrow is tangible. Stalin condemned over 2 million innocent people to work to their deaths in the local gold mines,... More