Lina saw her life stretching before her like a beautiful dream. She would go to art school and really begin her life. That was before the Soviets knocked down her door and took her and her family to Siberia. Lina uses her art to hold on in the work camps where extreme cold and extreme brutality leave little room for beauty. But it's not just beauty she is sharing, there is also a code in her work. We hear so many stories of Hitler's cruelty, but we forget that Hitler was not the only dictator in history that killed so many. Stalin is one of those, and we were his ally in the World War II. Did we have any other choice? Can we rightly say the enemy of my enemy is my friend? We soon learned that we couldn't trust him, and the Cold War began. These gulag stories are some of the stories we don't hear, but we need to be reminded.
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