A Personal Journey into the Gulag

This truck was called the "Stalin Truck" and it holds very personal significance for me. It was the basic vehicle used to supply the labor camp administrations of Stalin's Gulag Archipelago. My father spent a good part of his adult life working in a party machine shop in the district of Newer in the Soviet Far East repairing this truck. He was a political exile to Siberia, like most of his fellow workers and town residents, being forced to work to keep Stalin's slave labor camp system running smoothly in conditions that can only be described as inhuman.

In the summer of 1997 my sister and her husband, with the help of a former Soviet Intourist guide and resident of Siberia herself, made a momentous trip to find my father's settlement, machine shop and grave site. When time allows I will provide more details of this unusual hsitorical journey into heart of the Siberian wilderness.

You might want to go to the Cyber Tour entitled "My Gulag" at this point.