Originally Posted by
CX500T
My great grandmother died in a Gulag in 1984.
Her crime? My grandfather defected to the west and my great uncle was "Forest Brother" in Latvia who was executed in 1958 after capture and torure. Just being related was a crime
Soviet consul in Boston had the gall to come to our farm and demand money to pay for her final expenses.
I got to see my mom punch out a Soviet Bureaucrat. God I wish we had handheld video cameras then.
Im currently reading through The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn.
Of course, I will have to report you now as you are obviously engaging in espionage and subversion.