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Can anything be tougher than life in a Siberian prison camp?
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My friend Dieter told me that his father survived 9 years in a prison camp in Siberia. I know that you have read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and probably other accounts of prison life, so even if you have been personally spared this particular type of cultural enrichment, you know what was going on in Russian prison camps 50 years ago. You have to be incredibly tough to survive 9 years in most anybody’s prison camp, but can you think of anything that would take more out of you than a prison camp in Siberia? Years later they put the old man in a nursing home in Maine and he died the next day.
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