TOMSK, Russia - "No matter where I look or what I think about, everything seems to me gloomy, worrisome, and generally hopeless," Moscow University professor Aleksei Vangengeim wrote in an undated letter to his wife from the mid-1930s. "And only my home, with my dear and loved ones, seems to me clear and joyful, a star that illuminates my way."
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Letters are all that’s left of Gulag prisoners
Millions of Soviet citizens were executed by secret police or died in forced agricultural collectivisation and Gulag labour camps during Stalin's rule from the 1920s until his death in 1953.
