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12 OUR LIFE • November 2023 In June she made an unauthor - ized visit to the White Sea port town of Kem, closed to foreign - ers, to investigate whether po - litical prisoners and exiles were being used as slave labor in the forestry and mining industries and to build the nearby Belomor or White Sea Canal. She wrote five articles that she managed to get out of the coun - try without Soviet censors being able to screen them, and which were published in London’s Daily Express in late August and Sep - Toronto Girl’s 5,000-Mile Trip Through Famine Lands of Russia tember 1932. These articles angered Soviet authorities because she described the exile of “many thousands of kulaks ... to the north since the collectivization of agriculture began.” Working in horrific conditions, large numbers of them were from Ukraine, she stated. Rhea Clyman understood that, if her articles were too critical of the Sovi - et government, they would not pass censorship and could jeopardize her ability to stay in Russia. Nonetheless, weeks later, increasingly disturbed by what she saw happening, she left by car on an ambitious road trip with two female companions, determined to see what conditions were like in the “Famine-lands,” as Rhea called them, of Soviet Ukraine and the coun - try beyond Moscow. Aware of the challenges of such a trip, Rhea Clyman was committed to learning the truth about what was happening in the countryside and to finding out how ordinary Soviet workers and peasants (farmers) were being treated after 15 years of Communist rule. Rhea Clyman’s travel map from Moscow through eastern Ukraine.
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