Tens of thousands of slave laborers first heard the news from crewmen on cargo vessels plying Siberia's 2,800-mile-long Yenisei River: the Kremlin was downgrading late Dictator Stalin and rectifying the abuses of his regime. Counting themselves noteworthy victims of Stalinist repression, the prisoners (working on a project to divert the Yenisei into a vast inland sea for irrigating arid Kazakstan) saw a new day dawning.
Then last March several hundred Geor gian prisoners arrived at the camps. They had been arrested in Tiflis for taking part in a demonstration when the authorities failed to observe the third anniversary of Georgia-born Stalin's death...
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