On December 25,1948, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) launched an attack on the Egyptian military in the area of the Sinai desert. The offensive, part of the Arab-Israeli war, was notable for pointing to the expansionist character of the newly-formed Zionist state.
The local authorities have decided to close the museum room where the famous writer Varlam Šalamov wrote the Tales of Kolyma, the most intense narration of the life of the deportees in Siberia at the time of Stalin. The decision followed a complaint about the precarious condition of the building, a symbol of a memory that is increasingly troublesome in Russia today.
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