Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident, has been sentenced to several years in Penal Colony No.2. The New York Times notes the harsh conditions there, including: “Inmates, for example, must shave every morning, but are not allowed to do so themselves because they are not allowed to hold razors; instead, activists wield the razors and cuts and nicks are common.” The “activists” are fellow prisoners who work with the guards, or members of criminal gangs.
Shaving in a Russian Prison
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EGADS!!!!! No PSYCHO razors ???
Rhody
I'm a Lumberjack.
Strangely all the reported “nicks” run the length of the neck.
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My grandfather died in a Soviet camp, in Tomsk, Siberia, sometime around 1915. Sent there under the Tsar for revolutionary activities, after the revolution kept there as a Polish nationalist, you can’t win.
Rhody
I'm a Lumberjack.
Wow that’s so sad and probably impossible to find anything out about him there.
You could potentially find out some information by contacting
www.memo.ru
They do have English speakers on staff. Records, especially for the early Soviet years, are hit or miss, but they are probably the best clearinghouse for information on the repressed.
Memorial Society
International historical and educational, charitable and human rights society
They do have English speakers on staff. Records, especially for the early Soviet years, are hit or miss, but they are probably the best clearinghouse for information on the repressed.
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Thank you so much!You could potentially find out some information by contacting
Memorial Society
International historical and educational, charitable and human rights society
They do have English speakers on staff. Records, especially for the early Soviet years, are hit or miss, but they are probably the best clearinghouse for information on the repressed.
Rhody
I'm a Lumberjack.
Very coolYou could potentially find out some information by contacting
Memorial Society
International historical and educational, charitable and human rights society
They do have English speakers on staff. Records, especially for the early Soviet years, are hit or miss, but they are probably the best clearinghouse for information on the repressed.
Thanks
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I have a copy of a letter that my father wrote in the late 1940’s that recounts some family history- he was writing to my mother’s family in Ireland, asking for permission to marry their daughter, and wanting to give an account of himself. Mom and her sister had been nurses in London through the war, and the Blitz. My father was a merchant seaman sailing on various allied ships through the war. And I have a beautiful photo album with pre-war pictures of life in Poland, where my father never returned to.
I wonder how often do they replace the blades?
Rhody
I'm a Lumberjack.
Every time someone gets a visitor
Never
Rhody
I'm a Lumberjack.
That’s nice to have with that history
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Replace prisoner, not blade.
Unfortunately, shaving is the least of the problems in that prison!!
Mike M
...but this one IS cracked.
Much as I enjoy a shave I think I'd grow a beard
Nothing good can come of the Russian penal system.
But...
^^^^^^^^ This is what makes the B&B community great!
But...
You could potentially find out some information by contacting
Memorial Society
International historical and educational, charitable and human rights society
They do have English speakers on staff. Records, especially for the early Soviet years, are hit or miss, but they are probably the best clearinghouse for information on the repressed.
^^^^^^^^ This is what makes the B&B community great!
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Indeed!
Thanks a lot!You could potentially find out some information by contacting
Memorial Society
International historical and educational, charitable and human rights society
They do have English speakers on staff. Records, especially for the early Soviet years, are hit or miss, but they are probably the best clearinghouse for information on the repressed.
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