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Chess set made in the Gulag
Chess set made in the Gulag by a prisoner in north-east Siberia. On the box are the words, “Play well and dream of freedom, Magadan, 1945.” Magadan was the port through which prisoners arrived to work in the remote Kolyma region.
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