The girl who lost her youth to a Stalinist gulag

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The girl who lost her youth to a Stalinist gulag Oct 28, 2012 12:03:02 GMT -8

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Post by peterd on Oct 28, 2012 12:03:02 GMT -8

Wrongly charged with terrorism eight years ago, 29-year-old Zara Murtazalieva has spent almost all of her adult life in a Stalin-era penal colony. Released just under two months ago, she tells her story to FRANCE 24.

www.france24.com/en/20121028-zara-murtazalieva-girl-who-lost-youth-stalinist-gulag-chechnya-russia-terror-police

THE TRENCHES.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives vaaliantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who