![]() ![]() People were brought there in the clothes they were wearing when they were detained. "What was it like?" Tokayeva repeats as she considers the question. But Dariga Tokayeva, a guide at the Ekibastuz city museum, says the prison remains infamous for its miserable conditions. The camp has long since vanished, replaced by the city's Shakhtyor Stadium. This city in northeastern Kazakhstan is where Soviet planners chose to build one of their most notorious labor camps, a special facility for political prisoners that was part of the massive network of prisons known collectively as the Gulag. ![]() The temperatures have dipped to minus-20 degrees Celsius, whipped to a bone-freezing chill by strong winds that blow in across the steppe, unimpeded by hills or forests. ![]() EKIBASTUZ, Kazakhstan - November is not a good time to find yourself on the streets of this flat, windswept city. ![]()
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