5/29/2023 0 Comments Dear America by Thomas Sgovio![]() Even today, those who research the fate of such people often discover that the records are missing, or the place-names have changed, or the files have been moved. Rumours of American or British or other foreign prisoners in the Soviet gulag have been around for as long as the gulag itself, but they have always been hard to substantiate. And that, unfortunately, is the fate of many such stories. Later, in Moscow, I tried to find a mention of the ‘English colony’, or something like it, in the Russian archives, but I could not. Supposedly, some of the locals had once heard the prisoners singing English songs. Allegedly, a railwayman had once found the remnants of a British uniform on the site of the former barracks there, but no one was quite sure what had happened to it. A remote spot - it was said to be several hours from the nearest town, but trains were infrequent and roads non-existent - the ‘English colony’ was the site of a former Soviet camp: a small piece of the gulag where the prisoners had been British. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once, while travelling in an odd part of Siberia, I was told of a place called ‘the English colony’. ![]()
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