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Category : History - Red terror

Arkhangelsk
The monastery in Kholmogory ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1994-07 The monastery in Kholmogory 70 km from Arkhangelsk. Look at the domes. They are cut of. It's done by political prisoners arrested by the Bolsheviks in the 1920. The monastery was the first concentration camp close to Arkhangelsk. During the summer of 1920, one supposes 10.000 people to be executed here!
Kargopol
A cell for prisoners condemn to dearth ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-11 The one way door - a person who went inside here, was walking out only once - when his death penalty should be fullfilled.	A watch tower ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1996-04 In the past, the watch towers was used to control the prisoners in the working camps. This is and old border controll tower on the Russian border to Norway.	Barbed wire - the symbol of the GULag and the red terror ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-11 There were several hundreds of working camps, or concentration camps in The Archangel region.
Prisoners cells in Kargopollag ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-11 The old women monastery Krasnaya Gorka was changed to be a prisoners cell for people judged to death sentence during the Stalin time.	The view from a death cell in Kargopollag ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-11 A man could get white hear during one night after receiving his judgement.