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A. Flyarkovsky on "Notes from Samara "

A. Flyarkovsky — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:21:10 +0000

Interesting, solid article. The author the good fellow. All is written correctly. The author has well told about the Samara region. Article causes respect. With admiration, A.Flyarkovsky

najuste on "The Vyatlag Archipelago"

najuste — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:57:02 +0000

The most terrible thing is that Russians still do not face up these facts, their reality is different. Russians living in this district (oblast in russian) are saying and believing that there were NO CAMPS. People came at those places just to work. And nobody want to say the truth. In fact they were get there to die.

Intelegent people, the middle and the upper class were sent there by force.. My grandmother, trying to avoid those trains, left her home beeing pregnant and was in hidding for half a year. Familly with two small childs moved 150 km away from there home... And much more terrible stories I heard, while we, childs, were doing interviews with people who came back from there., for a history lesson.

Now, in Lithuania, a new project is launched "Misija-Sibiras" - "Mision:Siberia". Young, selected people are going there to search in history. To search graveyards, villages.. In order to respect ancestors, theyo make an order in those graveyards. They mark them. By foot youngsters are traveling through those painfull lands full of signs already overgrow with weeds, bushes and even trees..

A galery from this mission: http://www.misijasibiras.lt/2008/?/GALERIJA/

Kathryn Elizabeth on "Undercurrent"

Kathryn Elizabeth — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:34:58 +0000

This sounds like something my brother could have written! I only wish he and his family didn't live so far.

dimensional_dan on "Undercurrent"

dimensional_dan — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:11:31 +0000

Nice free flowing piece, very vivid and a bit post modern too... ;)

Peter Browning on "Undercurrent"

Peter Browning — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:14:12 +0000

Well now, the uninitiated might think that ol' Griz is some kind of a freak sideshow, but he's pretty much par for the course in the US of A. A conservative estimate makes it that about 10% of the male population is like that. Just normal American boys with piss and vinegar surging through their veins. But Griz has a leg up on the competition, having been fortunate enough to be struck by lightning. How lucky can a man get? Griz has everything going for him: excels at killing at long distance, knows how to handle booze and meds, straddles a big hawg, and survived a death blow. He has all the qualifications to be President, except that he seems to be excessively shy. Whooeee! Griz!! Way to go! — And I sure do admire your command of the idiom. I like your style. And run for President if the spirit moves you. You put the present Prez in the shade. Just stick with the military and adventuresome side of your life, and don't say anything about abortion, immigration, or stem cells. Or any kind of cells. Kickstart your life and get at it. I look forward to reading more about you in the scandal sheets. Most sincerely.