![]() But he and his friends had understood immediately, for they, too, had been zeks, the half-starved prisoners of the network of hundreds of forced labor camps spread across the world’s largest country like a string of islands. Whether fish or salamander, these were preserved in so fresh a state, the scientific correspondent reported, that those present immediately broke open the ice encasing the specimens and devoured them with relish on the spot.įew readers of that science journal, Solzhenitsyn observed, would have understood what sort of people rush to eat prehistoric creatures. ![]() It reported in tiny type that in the course of excavations on the Kolyma River a subterranean ice lens had been discovered which was actually a frozen stream - and in it were found frozen specimens of prehistoric fauna some tens of thousands of years old. In 1949 some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences. ![]() ![]() Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn began The Gulag Archipelago with one of the most searing passages in literature: ![]()
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