This wall sculpture is located at the Museum of Memory for the Victims of Repression in the Dolinka Colony, also known as the KarLag Museum. For many years, the region was one of the main coal mining sites in the entire Soviet Union, and the KarLag labour camp provided the necessary manpower for this activity. Today, the town is still populated by the descendants of Germans, Poles, Koreans and other deportees from the 1930s and 1940s. The museum is located in the camp’s administrative building and opened to the public in 2011.

Credits: Mathilde Ramkissoon (France, @sovietblocs)

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