"In 1949 some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences. It reported in tiny type that in the course of excavations on the Kolyma River a subterranean ice lens had been discovered which was actually a frozen stream - and in it found frozen specimens of prehistoric fauna some tens of thousands of years old. Whether fish or salamander, these were preserved in so fresh a state, the scientific correspondent reported, that those present immediately broke open the ice encasing the specimens and devoured them with relish on the spot."
Solzhenitsyn went on to explain how starved those prisoners were. A perfect description as to how it was, is, and will always be ... under communism.
I wonder if the article describes the people ... probably Gulag prisoners digging for gold ... that found the latest specimens.
I wonder if the article describes the people ... probably Gulag prisoners digging for gold ... that found the latest specimens.