As collectors, we all have vintage chess sets that would be absolutely perfect if only they had just a little more weight or the original felt bases were … well, a little less on the ‘vintage’ side. Understandably, adding weight, or more specifically, boring a hole into the base of a chess piece can be […]
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GULAG: Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitenie-trudovykh LAGere (Chief Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps); A prison system based on forced manual labour. It was established under the rule of Lenin and peaked during the Stalin era. The last of 476 Russian gulags (Camp Perm-36, Solovki) was closed in 1987. Vladimir Petrov, mentioned below, died in a coal-mining gulag […]