Vorkuta
You organised great hunger strikes
In Stalins’ hellish slave labour prisons
And improved the rations for everyone
Including the non-political prisoners
Until Stalinist guards one day
Following Kobas’ murderous orders
Frogged marched you out of there
to the nearby waiting forest
where you were made
to dig your graves
before being shot and burned
but time is on your side my friends
and history is far from done
Peter Burton
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