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The GULAG History Museum presents the twenty-fifth film from the My GULAG project – the memoirs of Lev Aleksandrovich Netto. Lev Aleksandrovich Netto was born in 1925 in Moscow. In 1940, he entered artillery school and was called up to the front during the war. In 1944, his unit landed in Estonia, where Lev Aleksandrovich was captured. In 1945, he was liberated by American troops and returned to the USSR, deciding to continue his military service. In 1948, Lev Aleksandrovich was arrested as a result of a denunciation, sentenced under Article 54 to 25 years in a labor camp and transferred to Gorlag in Norilsk, where in 1953 he took part in a prisoner uprising. In 1956, he was released under an amnesty, returned to Moscow and graduated from the instrument-making faculty of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. He was rehabilitated in 1958. Project My GULAG Director: Anton Androsov Camera operator: Anton Androsov © Studio of visual anthropology of the GULAG History Museum 2014 Memories of people who were affected by repressions have been collected by the GULAG History Museum since June 2013 as part of the project "My GULAG", the goal of which is to create an archive of interviews united by the theme of the GULAG, and to actualize the memory of a phenomenon that for a long time was actively displaced from the mental space of our compatriots and remained an unconscious and unlived experience. http://mygulag.ru