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Prisoners of Mine number 29 in Vorkuta camp, <br/> Komi Republic, 1954.
© Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius
Lumberjack team, Korbik, Krasnoyarsk region, 1950s
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Special resettlers working to build a railway line <br/> Pimiya, Krasnoyarsk region, 1951.
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Potato harvest, Suyetikha, Irkutsk oblast, 1954.
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Political prisoners working to build a railway line, <br/> Komi Republic, 1941.
© Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius
olitical prisoners working to build a railway line, <br/> Komi Republic, 1941.
© Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius
School pupils in Khara-Kutul, Republic of Buryatia, 1954.
© Rimgaudas Ruzgys
Special resettlers doing farm work, Republic of Buryatia, 1954.
© Rimgaudas Ruzgys
Celebration in a resettlers’ village
© Rimgaudas Ruzgys
Weddings in a resettlers’ village
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Group photograph in Siberia
© Rimgaudas Ruzgys

© Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius

© Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius

© Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius

© Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius

© Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius

© Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius

© Rimgaudas Ruzgys

© Rimgaudas Ruzgys

© Rimgaudas Ruzgys

© Rimgaudas Ruzgys

© Rimgaudas Ruzgys
Photographs of resettlement
Brutality, often indescribably violent, formed the prisoners into a human mass enduring the same fate. The years of resettlement, work and shared daily adversities, and conflicts due to differences in social background, national or ideological origin brought unexpected encounters and experiences of solidarity and hostility. For many, the camps and resettlement were paradoxically a time when they discovered the human and cultural diversity outside their national limits.