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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