From well-known tiger hunter, to slave laborer in Stalin's Arctic
camps.... The true story of one man's journey through Red Hell - the
Soviet GULAG slave labor camps where millions of people died for the
glory and satisfaction of one of history's most evil dictators. Valery
Yankovsky is a remarkable man. Soon to be 98 years old, he has long
since survived his captors and the worst that the old Soviet system
could throw at him. Purpose and an interest in life can do wonders. It
simply never occurred to Valery to give up and die, as many did in the
GULAGs. Tough to begin with growing up in a family of big-game hunters,
he was taken away just before his young wife was to give birth to their
first child. He never gave up hope of returning to them. Meet him
through this well-told and colorful story, by a natural storyteller.