Dilapidated wooden buildings, empty eye sockets, bunks in the huts, stars on the towers, a rickety palisade, a wooden bridge - either to freedom, or in conclusion - this is all that remains of one of the countless Stalinist camps. "The stone promised to keep a secret" - now it protects only the countless bodies of the victims of the regime buried here. It all started in the 30s ..
Civilian workers, former prisoners and children born in the camps continue to testify. The end of the 30s - the beginning of the 40s. for the prisoners abounded in important events. First, they expected changes in connection with the removal of Yezhov and the appointment of Beria. But instead of changes, there were general executions.
From the mountain, on which lies the old cracked "cup" of the high-voltage transmission line, the remains of the camp are visible. Chronicle - soldiers of the Great Patriotic War are greeted with Victory and with flowers. In parallel with these trains there were other trains that were not met with flowers. Those who rode in them - prisoners of war, repatriates - were sent from German captivity to Soviet prisoners of war, to camps. They wanted to return to their homeland, and instead received a tribunal and prison. The denunciations began again, the regime tightened, handcuffs and numbers were introduced, which now replaced the names . - Clandestine organizations were created among the prisoners; people went on the run. They were shot, the corpses of the murdered fugitives for weeks lay unburied for intimidation, but they still ran away - drove the excitement of freedom, human dignity. Death was a common occurrence - The authors dedicated this film without guilt to the murdered, our bro