This is a really interesting article on BBC news. It is about an unfinished railway built during Stalin’s rule. You all know how important industrialisation and railway building was throughout the course and this is a good example of the human cost of this. The article includes stories of some of the thousands of people sentenced to hard labour working on the railway. We can also link this to press and propaganda under Stalin as this railway has not been talked about for decades.
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This is a really interesting article from the BBC news as it gives you quite a good insight to what it was really like for people in the times of industrialisation. The fact the article quotes someones real life experience means you can get a first hand account and lets you understand what railway building was like.