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EPISODE · Feb 27, 2024 · 9 MIN

Crimea's Soviet holiday camp

from Witness History · host BBC World Service

Artek, on the shores of the Black Sea in Crimea, was a hugely popular Soviet holiday camp.Maria Kim Espeland was one of the thousands of children who visited every year.In 2014, she told Lucy Burns about life in the camp in the 1980s.(Photo: A group of children attending Artek. Credit: Irina Vlasova)

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