Page 72 - Communism in Ambush

(top) In the Stalinist era, mil-
lions of Russian citizens were
loaded into trains and taken
away.

(Right) Industrial projects in
the Soviet Union were carried
out by the forced labor of
prisoners. This photograph
shows Uzbek children among
those working under terrible
conditions on the construc-
tion of the Fergana tunnel.

not wash, and were covered with sores. T They roamed the town begging for
help, but there were strict orders to locals not to help them. Even the dead
could not be picked up. The residents, of course, dreaded arrest them-
selves. In Vologda city too, forty-seven churches were taken over and
filled with deportees. 50
Another method of mass murder used against exiles were the labor