real or not?

[Sculpto]

found this on youtube while looking for a Russian song..
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[Aloe]

why should anyone save them, they are criminals. How about the hundreds of thousands of children without parents, who arent criminals? They need support more cuz they have a chance to be normal. Those in prison much less so.

[tfcrew]

The gulags of Siberia are no more. Solzhenitsyn's nightmare of the absurd has thankfully vanished. The prisons are still there, of course, with plenty of inmates — probably more than a million.

It is there you will find a 15-year-old boy who is serving three and a half years for stealing two hamsters from a Moscow pet shop. Or the mother of four who stole 12 cabbages — and was sentenced to four years in Siberia.

http://www.usp.com.au/fpss/exp-russian-gulag.html
Also...
http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/russian-youth-prisons-the-icon-an-interview-with-yana-payusova/

[lordtiberius]

There is a Russian literary tradition that begins in her prisons.

why should anyone save them, they are criminals. How about the hundreds of thousands of children without parents, who arent criminals? They need support more cuz they have a chance to be normal. Those in prison much less so.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
 - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

http://www.usp.com.au/fpss/exp-russian-gulag.html
Also...
http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/russian-youth-prisons-the-icon-an-interview-with-yana-payusova/

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