How a ballerina survived the Gulag
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The Story of a Prisoner in a Camp
The story of a lot of the artists who were imprisoned in the camps, and who ended upa being recruited into these performance brigades. She writes to costie, and she really asks him to send fabrics that she can er produce her own costumes,. To send sheet music, to send this to saind dad. So it's really, i mean, it's completely micaber, because she's in a camp, struggling for her survival, but she has to perform for her jailer. And so nina's existence then, it is very hard to imagine.
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