Russia Has a New Gulag
Moscow has revived the Soviet-era labor camp.
In 1978, Bohdan Klymchak walked out of the Soviet Union and asked for political asylum in Iran. Klymchak was Ukrainian, born near Lviv. In 1949, his family had been deported to Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East, after the arrest of his brother as a “Ukrainian nationalist.” In 1957, Klymchak himself was arrested for “anti-Soviet agitation”; even after his release, he remained . After he escaped across the border, and after the Iranians sent him back, Klymchak wound up in a camp called Perm-36, one of
