well here's a recap of this week's top stories on our t.v. the official report of last april's plane crash that killed poland's president and scores of the country's political and military elite blames a pilot error but there has been active political reaction in warsaw with accusations that the investigation is incomplete but another probe being launched there won't find anything same western aviation experts. two of the world's energy giants joined forces as russia's ross nafta and peace was billions of dollars worth of shares in a deal to jointly explore the vast undiscovered oil and gas richness of the russian

arctic the partnership club was welcome to build that moscow and loved it but criticized by. these involvement with mexico oil spill disaster last year. plus the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington final approval as russia first parliament passes the agreement in the second of three readings of the deal which would cost russian and american nuclear arsenals by a third was given the green light by the us senate just before christmas after months of wrangling. and up next we take you back to the stalin era telling the story of a soviet girl whose diary meant she was bad to an infamous gulag. these children have a different kind of history. is visibly nervous what he's

about to tell them is very important to him on a personal level who count the story of a girl who went to a mosque much like this one there was eighteen 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.

just one example of what she wrote in the. diary for somebody else rather than myself. i shudder at the thought. on. the. touch. yeah ten yes. i. was. and did they give me ten yes. 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 guess what i'm reduced down to 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 lena wrote when she was thirteen moscow's not happy people killing for beijing the subsidies 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 nina's diary quite accidentally she'd been looking for the file containing the case of nina's father sid geary been mcgough schoolboy who'd been purged along with many others. at first i really didn't feel like listening through ninnis diary three confidence filled with barely legible scribbles but then i looked in science 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 fade away in them. nina's best friend remain 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 mailed 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 boys used to sling shots usually 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 apposite. 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 and we crack down on all critical attitudes and the slightest hint of free and independent behavior. when we 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 new with us if the thing is that mina different from the soviet she was never one of them she didn't yield to the realities of so it life on this new looked with through nice and she was aware of what was going on. there bizarre things happening in russia dam and cannibalism people coming from the provinces tell stories is a local authorities can't cope with the job of a moving down. bodies in the streets because there are too many of them. in one thousand 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 soviet 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. none of that we saw was not aware of the terrible things happening around us. yes i think omer ixtapa knows nothing about the goings on here. the things those survivor investigators do here there are snakes they slander us. 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. prison mentions. a seventeen year old in me 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. nina's 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 his father said again have been mcgough school he 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 bolshevik 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 diary as were discovered when her flat was searched on

january fourth one thousand nine hundred thirty seven. nina's mother knew both he 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 lever 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 school year. 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 him. 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 i sent a letter to comrade stalin. in europe sky is called the russian and frank the jewish girl who expose naziism in a wartime diary. on a diet in a concentration camp of typhoid. survived the ordeal of the.

cultures that so much of the taxpayers' money coming to heights is never a real mystery prospect and. all across the globe countries one after another claimed foul play and help others for value. 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 say oh when my grandmother was first questioned by an investigator she

did not realize what she was in for a woman their respect their science 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. but their dogs. this is. 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. a region in russia's north gripped by a harsh climate it's six thousand kilometers from moscow mina 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 mind's eye of how i killed him that dictator villain and swine that georgian was crippled russia and 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. what exactly were your terrorist intentions. yes. i did nothing concrete i only

hoped i would cross paths outside the kremlin after finding out when he normally left it then i would shoot him with a revolver. visitors to 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 drove to 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. we have come. to visit a prison camp for women. women serve their terms here between the one nine hundred thirty one hundred fifty and the. cattle i'm grew vegetables. bishan 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 enmities she 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.

was lucky she'd been assigned to work at the camps poultry farm. day. live she didn't die of vitamin deficiency. there were almost no survivors among mates 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. soon 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 the. 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 become tree a big thrust forward. to roll back in the early twentieth century french economists had. the soviet union was halted in its tracks no country would be able to catch up with it by nine hundred fifty. of. the 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 but 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 thousand to inspire fear in the others . they also wanted to make sure that gold mining targets were made on time. some reason company executives believed i would always have a plentiful supply of 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 were taught to worship and admire stone from a young age. while my mother recalls that she was at a loss denser in questions from guests. they wonder which of the two she loved norm well her father her comment stella. frankly she loved both and equal measure. of 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 acts in me. for which she was the carriage throughout the rest of her life whenever her husband was going to tell somebody not to live she did like this or that she wouldn't let him say anything she was a great 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 which 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 there 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 in modest life came to an end in one

thousand nine hundred three. her diaries were found seven years later she had no way of knowing that her cherished ambition to write books would eventually come true or that her diaries would end up being translated into twenty languages. had no children her friend anatoly kuvin takes care of her grave. well nina was still alive he did not know that she'd been imprisoned she told nobody. she. took her twenty years to be vindicated. in letters to the government she made it clear that she'd been forced to confess and. life. was rehabilitated. no crime in the case of the.

grandmother of the moscow school teacher 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. try to remember the names of relatives who had also passed through the gulag their teacher. will be lasting memories. of gold miner. was also rehabilitated. duty bound to. 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. over unmarked graves. take a look. it's not quite in the right position to stand turning to face me. ok. each. one particular process is like a my way of repentance for the mistakes my relatives my. in the late nineteenth. and early twentieth century and. i hope god will somehow take notice of this.

court's found no crime in the case of give birth 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. thanks . but it should hardly becomes a surprise nearly every russian family do endure the horrors of stalin's repressions.

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