Welcome to India.
Papers and passports, please.
(Indian border official to the Siberian escapees)
Siberian escapees shake their head.
Never mind (says the Indian border official).
Stalin was the world’s biggest mass murderer (not that any of you schmucks would know).
Crueler than Hitler and all other monsters in history.
The so-called ‘enemies’ of the state that Stalin’s murderous regime didn’t kill outright, it banished to the icy wasteland of Siberian Gulags where many of the overworked and underfed prisoners died a slow death.
The Way Back (directed by Peter Weir) is the story of seven prisoners who escape from a Siberian Gulag and their 4,000 mile walk to India (their original destination is Mongolia but the political situation compels them to extend their freedom trek to India).
Decent Movie
Filmed in Bulgaria, Morocco and toward the end in India, The Way Back is based on the book The Long Walk by a Polish soldier Slavomir Rawic who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet gulag with a few others and made the long, difficult journey into India.
Rawic’s account has now been discredited but the movie is not any lesser for it. Continue reading »
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