Stories are often expressed on how Stalin exiled hundreds of people to the wintery, hell hole known as Siberia: common criminals, Political enemies, or citizens who were disgruntled with the regime were the type of people Stalin would send. The outlaws survived the gulags and their decedents now live in the wasteland they have always known as home.
It was another frozen evening in the wintery town of Verkhoyansk, Russia. Verkhoyansk is said to be one of the utmost miserable places on Earth due to its unbearable freezing temperatures; breaking every record besides that of Antarctica, the solitary continent. The Summer and Autumn seasons were eloping as the Winter came rushing in their place.
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Alyona, a blind woman barely scraping the age of 17, was no exception. It has almost been a year, Alyona thought, as she perched on the side of the armchair. The chair was her only possession that could comfort her. Alyona was born without vision, always thought of as a useless thing, not even considered a person. Who wanted a daughter who could not see? No Women, No Cry!, Alyona reflected her dad’s words. That was everyone’s view until Mikhail arrived, the eye of her snowstorm, the calm before the real snowstorm