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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 11:51 PM
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Russian mayor plans to reopen gulag
This broken-down Arctic coal town does not offer much when it is comes to economic prospects. The mayor works with what he has.

"My dream is to build a gulag," the mayor, Igor Shpektor, declared the other day in an outburst that stung like the bitter chill of late May in a place whose history is inseparable from the Soviet Union's notorious system of penal labor.

He meant a gulag for tourists.

"It's extreme tourism," he explained.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/06/08/2003258449
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 11:46 AM
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1. Visit "Tortureland", bring the kids. Be a prison guard. Hunt fugitives.
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