Blösche was sent to the Soviet camps for forced labour shortly thereafter.

"We understood that it is better to die in the forest with a weapon in your hands than in a Soviet camp."

A few years ago he performed songs written by a fan who spent 18 years in Soviet camps.

The Soviet camps were discussed in public, and allusions to them appeared in print.

I had word only last week that he died six months ago, in a Soviet camp not unlike the one from which you escaped.

Two years ago almost to the day, this man sat in a Soviet political camp, in punishment solitary, starving.

The perimeter would be open when the time came, allowing three hundred guerrillas to attack straight into the Soviet camp.

Countries like Lithuania, which have come from the same Soviet camp, are especially suited to this role.

Some of them were later exchanged for Polish prisoners imprisoned in Soviet camps.

The majority of the youths did not survive captivity in the Soviet special camps.