Talk:Solovki prison camp

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• Yuri Brodsky (Юрий Бродский), Solovki. 20 years of Special Regime (Соловки. 20 лет особого назначения).

Whether or not Gorky know of local conditions will remain a mystery

This is not exactly true, according to Solzhenicin some young boy informed Gorky of what was going on in the camp including in all the macabre details. See his book "Gulag Archipelago"

But Gorky spoke with the boy behind closed doors. Because the boy appears to have been shot afterwards, and Gorky never said anything about it, there is no verifiable source what Gorky knew exactly. Popular myth has it that Gorky was crying after he left the boy, but again, this revolves around verifiable information and that is not available. Errabee 14:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)