An island hell: A Soviet prison in the far north

The author recounts transport to a remote archipelago prison administered by the secret police, detailing the transformation of a former monastery into a camp, the daily regime of labor, starvation, brutality by guards and criminal hierarchies, abuses in the hospital, and special treatment of political detainees and women. He provides witness testimony of arrests, interrogation tactics, and examples of victims, and profiles camp administrators. The narrative also describes planning and executing an escape across the frontier, ending with arrival in Finland, and frames these observations as a firsthand report intended to reveal otherwise concealed conditions.