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Given severe restrictions on travel, it is extremely unlikely that more than a handful of people were able to escape the Gulag by leaving the USSR. Yet Ginzburg and others note that it was possible to avoid arrest by “dropping out of circulation”— that is, leaving the location where one was to be arrested. Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967), 21–23.
In August 1937, it became law that if a person was arrested as a political prisoner, his (usually his) family members could also be arrested as “members of the family.” Operational Directive of the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR No. 00486, “On the Operation of Repressing Wives and Children of Traitors to the Motherland,” August 15, 1937. S. S. Vilenskii, A. I. Kokurin, G. V. Atmashkina, and I. Iu. Novichenko, eds. and comps., Deti GULAGa 1918–1956. Dokumenty (Moscow: International Democracy Fund and Hoover Institution Press, 2002), 234–38.
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Gheith, J.M., Jolluck, K.R. (2011). It Wasn’t Life. In: Gulag Voices. PALGRAVE Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230116283_7
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