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Jun 18, 2014

International Museum On Communism To Be Built In D.C.

The Victims of Communism Foundation is planning to build a museum in D.C. in the not-too-distant future.

Sep 05, 2012

In News of Some Lesser-Known Memorials: Ukraine Edition

A federal agency is set to approve a new Memorial to Victims of Ukrainian Manmade Famine of 1932-1933, which will be located on a small plot of land at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street.

Jan 21, 2011

Out of Frame: The Way Back

While watching Peter Weir’s The Way Back, the events depicted onscreen may seem too unbelievable to be true. The point of imprisoning people in Siberia was that the location was itself a prison: there was just nowhere to go for hundreds of miles around. But the group of prisoners in the film, a multinational group of mostly political detainees during World War II manage to escape not by crossing just hundreds of miles, but around 4,000: through Mongolia, China, Tibet and across the Himalayas. If that seems implausible to you, you may be correct: though the film begins with a title card saying it’s based on a true story, the autobiographical novel on which it’s based, Slawomir Rawicz’s The Long Walk, has largely been debunked in its claim to be a factual story. About all that’s reasonably certain is that a group of Siberian prisoners were confirmed to have walked out of the Himalayas into India in the early 40s. Who they were and how they got there is the subject of much dispute.

 
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