Echoes from Eternity: 35. Irina Ratushinskaya from the Gulag
Irina Ratushinskaya was an inspiration. I’ve mentioned her here before, having had a fluke encounter in a bookshop. She proved remarkably resilient in the most appalling circumstances, a Soviet labour camp. Her crime? Poetry. It’s terrifying that some today might be nostalgic for an ideology and a system that could imprison millions in the Gulag. […]
