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brighton. song from feinstein. starts on t.v. dot com. good to have you with us this is our life here in moscow top stories now. in experience crewmembers lack of bad weather and readiness pressure from passengers to land quickly and the pot is for fuel to look for an alternative landing site those are

listed as the main reasons behind april's deadly crash which killed polish president lech kaczynski investigative committee has presented its final report on the accident scores is supposed. the world's most notorious detention center guantanamo bay has turned nine years old despite a bomb has pledged to close it down the prison still holds almost two hundred inmates in legal limbo. and i saw those happy ending the last of. the three hundred people on board is being led to safety by ice breakers after almost two weeks trying to russia's coast. for the moment. takes you back to the era of stalin a time when even a private diary entry. these

children have a different kind of history. their teacher is visibly nervous what he's about to tell them is very important to him on a personal level count the story of a girl who went to a mosque much like this one there was eighty years ago. she started a diary at seventeen she was banished to the infamous gulag locked up behind bars. for an attempt on stalin's life who instructed i got no explicit instructions from anybody. just another page in the history books. it's a vision of. his grandmother lived through it.

to understand how he feels about the difficult subject but how. just one example of what she wrote in. that i have a weird feeling that i keep a diary for somebody else rather than myself. i shudder at the thought. something wrong. sky who wrote the diary adored theater would the trouble was that in the soviet one nine hundred thirty s. theaters could not touch her heavy themes. yeah ten years. why. why.

did they give me ten years. the agreement is without appeal. i've done nothing wrong nothing wrong. real soviet people were supposed to be full of joy cheerful place desley parades an impressive demonstrations all of which were designed to inspire people with enthusiasm. i was just what i understand one said life has become better life has become merrier life for people in his inner circle may indeed have become better and more cheerful but listen to what you know wrote when she was thirteen moscow is not happy people killing for basic necessities are angry and worn out they curse their government and their miserable existence i.

after classes we were sent into the streets to march there there was no telling how angry i was what made things even worse was that i felt quite helpless. i decided not to join the demonstration. often visits the state archives and came across the name is diary quite accidentally she'd been looking for the file containing the case of nina's father said geary been mcgough schoolboy who'd been purged along with many others. at first i really didn't feel like listening thrown in his diary three confidence filled with barely legible scribbles but then i looked inside and when i began reading i couldn't tear myself away from it. typical teenage emotions for most of the three thick no books we see that nina was uncomfortable about her looks she thought she had a particular squint in one eye she was irked by the grumblings of her teachers and

longed to have more fun we learned about her admiration of tolstoy in check and her belief in eternal love she worried about failing to become a decent person when she grew up sometimes she played with the idea of committing suicide it seems like a case study of teenage psychology but the diary was nevertheless used as evidence of her counterrevolutionary activity. his eyes always intrigued me when i can't see them he looks just like many other boys but when i see its eyes from a short distance they seem to be twinkling as little spots flare up and think away in them. nina's best friend remade still has good memories of the most handsome boy in their class as well as their boring teacher they were thirteen years old. and then you know

what she was very fond of although she said as well as good things about me in her diary. she wrote that i liked teasing her but i don't you remember that. there was a very unpleasant incident in our school some of the bullies used slingshots to accuse the pictures of the country's leaders on the walls. they did that simply for the fun of it. but in fact it was a nightmarish episode where we as a school principal and everybody else could have been sent to prison. the bolsheviks are nothing but a pitiful bunch of despicable cowards they are afraid of everything so much though they might even build a criminal case around innocent jokes by schoolchildren they are out to bring us up to be uncomplaining slaves while stamping out any size of the spirit of protest

baby it mainly cracked down on all critical attitudes and the slightest hint of free and independent behavior. i. really didn't know that nina was keeping a diary nina kept her heart shut to her friends but she had no qualms about confiding to her diary what many adults never ventured to talk about even in whispers lou with us if the thing is that men a different from the soviet she was never one of them she didn't yield to the realities of summit life on this new looked with through nice and she was aware of what was going on. there bizarre things happening in russia damning and cannibalism people coming from the provinces tell stories is a local authorities can't cope with the job of moving down. bodies in the streets

because there are too many of them. in one thousand nine hundred thirty seven someone did read through her diary an investigator from the ministry of internal affairs picked it over very carefully he used a red pencil to underline everything that seemed to him in thai sylvia thoughts phrases like life is a meaningless and stupid joke were found throughout by all accounts nina's teenage pessimism was out of tune with stalin's catch phrase life has become better life has become merrier. now that we started it was not aware of the terrible things happening around us. i think olmert stalin knows nothing about the goings on here. the things those survivor investigators do here there are snakes they slander us.

but he takes they would sit face value how come he doesn't know she doesn't do you know that speakers of the communist party said nothing about jails for political prisoners and other prisons being turned into resorts. what this play is based on a book called journey into the whirlwind by you gave me a ginsburg like nina the woman went through the gulag the chapter about prison mentions nina will give skye a seventeen year old and make the book describes how adult women looked after the girl they washed her pants braided her hair gave her their sugar rations and taught her how to behave during interrogation. do you admit that you had terrorist intentions against comrade stalin and other leaders of the bolshevik party. i admit i had a terrorist intent against stalin the soviet government's crackdown on my father

prompted such intentions. menas fate was likely sealed before she was even born she could have ended up in prison anyway even without the diary. to begin with she was born into the family of an opposition ist nina's father said again even though gov school was a communist but his interpretation of the word different from how the bolsheviks and the ruling party understood it. he was in favor of the people's power and against the dictatorial power of one man despite repeated harassment and arrests minas father managed to set up a prosperous enterprise cooperative of the bakers it was called the end colony all in its four hundred staff from director to floor sweeper. were paid the same salary they had free meals at the local canteen and the cooperative ran its own hairdressing salon in theater it was a veritable communist paradise. but when some members of the ruling party asked

his father to allow them to join the prosperous cooperative he turned them down he was arrested in one thousand thirty seven and executed shortly thereafter. if you want to weigh into diaries were discovered when her flat was searched generally force nine hundred thirty seven. nina's mother to both you and her two sisters who were arrested on march the tenth nina was arrested six days later. nina was sentenced to five years in prison as were her mother and her sisters. all four were sent to labor camps in the country's north. and shared a desk when we were in eighth and ninth four but she didn't show up at the start of the following school year i assumed she had fallen ill. nobody in

school knew that nina had been arrested she just vanished into thin air classmates might have guessed what happened to her but they didn't dare talk about it at the time soviet people were no longer overly surprised to hear of people disappearing without a trace even children were arrested as a matter of routine. tenderness why did they do to you you. i stood up for the history teacher has been arrested back in spring. when they sent a new teacher toss the whole class went on strike but they all of us were arrested at the graduation party that summer. i'd even dressed up for the occasion with a bow and everything. but you know i'm sure i'm sure that the truth will be found out and they will be set free because i i just know they will because as sent a letter to comrade stalin. in europe

sky it is called the russian and frank the jewish girl who expose naziism in a war time diary. on a died in a concentration camp of typhoid. survived the ordeal of the gulag. culture is the same i understand michael and it's always been my son looking back would be a new look but it isn't the mark one year around the catastrophic earthquake haiti remains in ruins and prospects bleak what has gone so wrong for this and potter's hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in this history lesson the teacher is quoting examples from the background of his own family rather than a textbook he's recounting the story of his grandmother who like nina was arrested

. you could tell you when my grandmother was first question by an investigator she did not realize what she was in for a woman there east but there are signs laughing at what she said when she returned to the cell she remarked the lead investigator has no manners he didn't even ask me to take a seat. this is going to stop all. their dogs. this is your stop. and. i do mean touches like all gangsters they do their duty business at night you have to block your ears if you don't want to go crazy they're beasts. colima a region in russia's north gripped by

a harsh climate it's six thousand kilometers from moscow nina and her mother and sisters were sent here after they were found guilty of so-called counterrevolutionary activity menas diary had been included in her case as key material evidence. i spent several days in bad painting a picture in my my. of how i kill him that dictator villain and swine that georgian was crippled russia but how do i do it i want to kill him at the earliest opportunity i will take revenge for myself and my father. food chain your old nina wrote those lines in one nine hundred thirty three the inner thoughts of a teenager with an attitude but three years later under excruciating interrogation she was forced to sign a confession admitting a plot against stalin's life. was

exactly where your terrorist intentions. i did nothing concrete i only hoped i would cross stalin's path outside the kremlin after finding out when he normally left it then i would shoot him with a revolver. visitors to the mud today have mixed feelings on one hand they see beautiful landscapes on the other they know that the region's history is fraught with inexplicable cruelty. the truth they drilled in the sky into the prison camp in the autumn of one nine hundred thirty seven took a road built by other inmates many of them died during the construction. old quarter we have come to visit a prison come for women. women serve their terms here between the one nine hundred thirty nine hundred fifty and the. cattle i'm grew vegetables.

menas ambition was to be a painter and a musician but most of all she wanted to be a celebrated author however the easel the piano and the pen were now things of her past here she be forced to use tools of another trait. visited what was left of prison camps to collect oil lamps aluminum mugs picks and spades. here is a new exit for a museum they used to mine gold with it she set up a museum dedicated to the gulag and sometimes visits the camps with relatives of former inmates. there was a cemetery for children around here among the bushes in the one nine hundred forty s. . i think the child of one of the inmates was buried in this small coffin and. the graves were shallow at that time must have dug it up. i found it in one thousand

nine hundred nine. she'd been assigned to work into camps poultry farm. least an egg a day then why she didn't die of vitamin deficiency. there were almost no survivors among inmates working in the gold mines. most could endure only four years of such grueling labor there were two types of inmates in prison camps criminals convicted for murder burglary or similar crimes and people convicted for political activity. sue called political convicts even included mothers who might have stolen wheat stocks from a collective farm to feed their starving children or fathers coming to work five minutes late grandfathers who kept copies of the bible at home were persecuted and even teenagers writing school compositions and what was seen as the wrong spirit

could fall foul of the law that people were put behind bars for telling jokes and praising technological achievements of other countries there was a host of absurd charges i still keep the one nine hundred twenty six criminal code that one of its articles even made side punishment for failing to provide horses to the red army. many historians suggest that if this ovi government had used normal methods it would have taken fifty years to open up a mock prison inmates did the job in ten. slave mandela could help give the contrary a big thrust forward. to roll back in the early twentieth century french economists had warned the soviet union was holding its tracks no country would be able to catch up with a nine hundred fifty. gold

miner and son of an ex political prisoner he doesn't learn his history from a book the land where he lives is his teacher sometimes it shocks with graphic lessons like this one. is a rifle card which is just these ones are pistol fired yes pistol fired i think these were fired with a carbine or submachine gun. look here some more. they crop out quite often this one is rusty yeah small wonder after so many years down there. here bullets in cartridges are just as common as gold nuggets. inmates were publicly shot and killed by the thousands to inspire fear in the others. they also wanted to make sure that gold mining targets were men on time.

for some reason company executives believed i would always have a plentiful supply of inmates gold mining in colima i think nineteen thirty seven and especially not in thirty eight with the darkest pages in column is history. the only thing the teacher couldn't explain to the children was why some inmates shouted words of admiration for stalin before they were executed and why they were still sure that anybody but him was to blame for their deaths. they strenuous you see a coat of stone was forming in the country even children who were taught to worship an admired stone from a young age. while my mother recalls that she was at a loss denser in questions from guests. they wondered which of the two she loved norm well her father or comrade stella. frankly she loved both in equal measure that. nina will go sky is survived five years of imprisonment before being exiled

to the city of monkey done to work as a graphic designer at the local theater her job was to paint soviet style stars and write slogans on red banners it was during her stint to theatre that she met her future husband also an artist and ex in me. she was the carriage throughout the rest of her life whenever her husband was going to tell somebody about to live she did like this or that she wouldn't let him say anything she was afraid as time went by nina realised one of her ambitions she was acclaimed as an artist but never again were her thoughts recorded in a diary as emotional and sincere as they had been in her childhood but she still steered clear of public demonstrations and never used red colors in her paintings and italy kuvin an artist was her friend in the final years of her life then of the she was more daring in her work than many other artists her paintings were not

given due recognition it was not until she was sixty years old that she was admitted to the artists union menas quiet and modest life came to an end in one thousand nine hundred three. books. true. children. know that she. she. she made it clear.

found no crime in the case of the former schoolgirl. the grandmother of the moscow school teacher who was also rehabilitated. case was closed because the elements of the crime were not present but millions of people in similar cases were already did their cases were simply closed because the elements of the crime were not present. the children hang around after class to discuss what they've just heard some try to remember the names of relatives who had also passed through the gulag their teacher. to doze will be lasting memories for. the father of gold miner. was also rehabilitated. to things he's duty bound to set up

a memorial crosses where prison camps are cemeteries for inmates used to be he goes out of his way looking for these places he makes the crosses and then invites priests to come say memorial prayers over unmarked graves. take a look from this side first. it's not quite in the right position and stand here turn up to face me. ok. which. mistakes my relatives my. and early twentieth century and. i hope god will somehow take notice of this.

court's found no crime in the case of. author of journey into the whirlwind later adapted it will play the performance always attracts a full house each time the actors receive a standing ovation. but it should hardly becomes a surprise nearly every russian family had to endure the horrors of stalin's repressions.