Fósiles del Mar Blanco

As one part in their process of reforming (or "re-forging") class enemies into Bolsheviks, the Soviet authorities devised the gulag to serve as a "museum" where prisoners might be observed for the last time as endangered specimens: the aristocrat, the landowner, the bourgeois and the criminal. Their final transformation was carried out in one of Stalinism’s most Dantesque projects: the Gulag of the White Sea Canal, where thousands of prisoners were forced to dig a mammoth canal into the frozen Karelian land to connect the White Sea to the Baltic. The shock wave generated by the drastic re-forging of human matter opens up a path into the present, to the capture and forced conscription of Russian soldiers, and looks back at the prisoners of the canal from the trenches of the Ukrainian front.