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Winter, stabbing frost, dark night and Soviet militants striking rifle butts on the door of houses – this is how many people imagine arresting the victims of mass deportations to the East. Even drawings and paintings, poems or films that arise on this subject usually contain the theme of winter, snow, frost. And what if this drama was not played out in the cold winter, but in the summer, in the hellish heat? Was it less shocking?

The Sybir Memorial Museum has been enriched with new collections, behind which there is an extraordinary history ...