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Article: Stalin's children; The Soviet Union.(Book review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 20, 2007
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Tens of millions died in Stalin's famines, purges and camps. Most Soviet citizens somehow survived. Here are some of their stories
ONE of Russia's most popular television shows is "Wait For Me", a true-life tear-jerker that finds and reunites separated couples and families. Sometimes the stories it tells are run-of-the-mill melodramas that could have happened anywhere. But often they are tragically Russian, combining huge distances, lavish and indiscriminate cruelty and impenetrable bureaucracy: siblings separated 70 years ago when their parents were executed; lovers who lost one another in prison camps.
"Wait For Me" takes its name from the most famous ...