‘Hider’ entices the listener along a path leading towards an enchanted forest; the opening vocals and guitar the deep green vines that intertwine all across the way. The trees can be seen, but are …

ARCTICS HISTORIC WARMTH continues.... Unprecedented warmth for late August; 27C in the Arctic Circle at Igarka, 25C at 70N at Karaul 21.5C at 75N at Mys Sterlegova etc Vize Island at 79N hasn't frozen in 6 weeks! This warmth has been going on for weeks. Map by Dr. Maue https://t.co/HnkW0WWL1v

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Paul Goble Staunton, May 2 – At a time when Moscow is praising Stalin and whitewashing his crimes, when Russian officials are suggesting Stalin’s giant projects are something that should be emulated, and when Putin is trying to build a railway across the Russian North, the _NeMoskva_ portal provides a useful correction and even critique. Sergey Tashevsky, a commentator for that portal, tells the horrific story of Stalin’s plan to build the Great Northern Railway from Salekhard to Igarka using tens of thousands of GULAG prisoners, a 1200 km project that became known as “the Way of the Dead” (nemoskva.net/2026/05/02/mertvaya-doroga-salehard-igarka/). Under discussion for most of Stalin’s time in office, this project was officially launched in January 1949 without any of the preparatory investigations of the ground and permafrost that were needed but with Stalin’s assurance that there would always be plenty of workers because he wanted to use GULAG inmates to construct this line. The line was not completed, but it left in its wake thousands of graves and enormous amounts of steel and other construction equipment. But it was such a failure that less than three weeks after Stalin died on March 5, 1953, his successors shut the project down completely, recognizing as Putin and company don’t seem to how awful Stalin’s “giant” plans were.

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