#labour camps

[thinkingimages]

Excerpt from 'Road of Bones' by Jacob Aue Sobol

Running 2031 km from Yakutsk to Magadan, the “Kolyma Highway” has a dark past. With untold numbers of Gulag prisoners buried beneath the highway, the “Road of Bones” continues to claim new lives every year. In literally one of the coldest parts of the inhabited world, the Kolyma region’s residents seem to exist in pure defiance – it is this way of life, these people surviving under extreme conditions in the shadow of a gruesome history, that I wish to engage with and portray.

From 1932 to 1953, millions of victims of the Soviet repression were sent to forced labor camps in Siberia. 80 of Stalin’s Gulag camps were established in the Kolyma region alone holding a mixture of ordinary criminals and political prisoners from all over Europe. One of the largest Gulag operations was the construction of the 2031-km-long “Kolyma Highway”. Built by prisoners who were literally worked to death, it connected Magadan with the mountainous interior, opening up the region to gold mining while at the same time connecting it to the outside world.

Untold numbers died constructing the highway across the frozen ground. Buried where they fell, the prisoners’ corpses were often incorporated into the foundation of the road to protect it from the permafrost, giving the road its most common nickname: Road of Bones. Prisoners said that there was one body for each tree cut down to clear the forest...

+ images/further reading: https://phmuseum.com/projects/road-of-bones-1

[gaylittlebillionaires]

something about these being the only clips that (to my knowledge at least) exist of the 2007 production at the edinburgh fringe of tony! the blair musical and it’s blair and mandelson having a romcom moment and the conservative leaders barbershop quartet 😭

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Excerpt from an RP with @prettymediocrewizard that has me going bananas crazy

[shakespearenews]

A month of Shakespeare News!

4/4: Someone won the "Sleep No More" auction and has a taxidermied javelina in their house. Also, Arthur Miller's first radio play was about Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland because [reasons], someone doodled in a First Folio, and Ophelia gets some chemical help.

[ratsreading]

"It looks like... Well, on Earth, we have delightful critters named sea spiders which are mostly leg, to the extent that actual vital organs end up squeezed into those legs because the body is so small. And the legs are very long, with lots of hooks and things at the end. They exist to punish arachnophobes who thought that diving into the deep ocean would keep them safe from regular spiders, and look like the nightmare distillation of all the things people hate about them. But at least they do only live in the deep sea, and being there, they don't scitter about like monkeys in the throes of a grand mal seizure. Oh, and sea spiders have the decency to be bilaterally symmetrical and relatively flat. This thing is very big on being in the third dimension. It has a body that's all long spines like a sea urchin, with a lot of legs projecting off from this at all angles"

- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky

[soviet-siscon]

"nooo fauxcest is about so much more than just pretending to be related for sex, it's about connection and longing and acceptance and finally feeling loved" type people when your actual incestuous feelings are more complicated/different than just "i want to fuck my relative" 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[supermanshield]

Just appreciating the fact that Bruce is putting make-up on Clark's face while they're both dressed in underwear and not much else

World's Finest #193

[hadleysmis]

Jean Valjean is punished in prison

Kotaiah is punished for another prisoner's sneezing while Inspector Javert was... Well, inspecting the prisoners, I think.

In this scene, we get to see other prisoners understand the injustices and debating silently on whether to intervene. At the end of the day, they are all powerless, and thus in the state of powerlessness, they watch the whippings occur.

May contain sensitive content: depiction of whipping.

Beedala Patlu (1972)

[cator99]

I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

[andorerso]

sorry but comparing whether Jyn or Cassian suffered more in their life like it's the fucking trauma Olympics is fucking ridiculous

they both suffered the same and it's literally not a competition, hope this helps <3

[shes-some-other-where]

“See what happens.”

Contains: prison/labour camp (implied), physical violence

“Talk back to me again, scum.” The chief overseer’s face twisted, a garish mask of scorn and hate contorting what might have been a passably handsome countenance into the grisly snarl of a bloodthirsty beast. “Try it. See what happens.”

He kept silent, watching the overseer’s eyes. They snapped and glinted, blazing with savage fury.

“Nothing more to say, huh?”

Without warning, the overseer swung his club, cracking it into his jaw. He fell, tasting the bitterness of blood on his tongue.

“You keep your mouth shut and your eyes down, rat, or next time, I won’t be so gentle.”

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[bauliya]

the “coconut is a slur” discourse is why we need to hunt lunchbox trauma diaspora creatives for sport

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

guys

im going to Uzbekistan. to work on excavations on a site from the middle paleolithic... wow...

paleolithic professor invited me to join her team. so i had to accept

[pyr0lez]

last post reason 1000000 why i feel less sympathy for autistic men. fuck you. you live life on easy mode due to maleness anyway and you still cant learn off a script to be nice to your own MOTHER?????

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“REDS CONDUCT TWO MARTYRS TO GRAVE,” Montreal Star. April 29, 1930. Page 6. ---- Huge Demonstration Precedes Burial of Strike Agitators ---- STREETS ARE LINED --- Communist Army Out in Full Force at Port Arthur ---- PORT ARTHUR, Ont., April 29. (CP) - Determined to uphold to the last the theory that the two lumber strike agitators, Voutilaine and Resvall [sic: should be Rosvall and Voutilainen] had died martyrs to the cause. A Communist army yesterday paraded through the streets as the two bodies were borne to the cemetery.

Out in the thousands to view the eclipse of the Sun, Port Arthur residents watched the great procession move slowly through the darkened streets. Nearly 2,000 men, women and children marched, a display of Communist sentiment beyond any ever be fore seen in the two cities of Port Arthur and Fort William.

BOTH DISAPPEARED Last Fall two lumber worker organizers, sent out to organize the men in the camps for a strike, disappeared at Onion Lake. Provincial police investigated and reported they had probably met death by falling through the ice while attempting to cross the Iake against advice. The explanation was not accepted by the Reds and letters were written to the Department of Justice at both Toronto and Ottawa asking further inquiries.

This spring the bodies were found. The talk of foul play was renewed and sensational charges made public, given circulation in red-ink circulars spread about the two cities and in a Finnish paper published at Sudbury. Three surgeons instead of one as usual, attended the post-mortem examination preceding the inquest to assure those interested on the point of foul play. One was a nominee of the Communists. The Coroner's Jury found accidental death by drowning on the basis of the medical men's report. 

Yesterday the Reds paraded in strength through the streets, taking Rosvall to the cemetery, where interment was made without religious ceremony of any kind, in keeping with the cult. The army was assembled from Port Arthur, Fort William and West Fort. 

The cortege was headed by a brass band, playing funeral dirges. [AL: Very unsympathetic news report on the largest funeral in the history of what is Thunder Bay, Ontario, that repeatedly calls the Communist Party, very influential among the Finns of the Lakehead, a cult.  Rosvall and Voutilainen’s mysterious deaths were sensational stories then, and local legend held they had been murdered by thugs hired by the logging camp bosses. Read more here.]

[tinyspringtrap]

my friends and I were talking and somehow ended up deciding that fazbear ent would absolutely have broken at least a few child labor laws and my friend kept posting glamrocks dancing while were talking about it so I slapped together the worlds laziest gif while trying not to cough up a lung