In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.
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as Stalin
as Viktor Abakumov
as Gleb Nershin
as Lew Rubin
as Nikolaj Schtschagow
as Wladimir Tschelnow
as Clara Makaraguine
as Major Shikin
as 'Ruska' Rostislav
as Aletvina Makaraguine
as Pyotr Makaraguine
as Riyumin
as Nikol
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as Dottnara Volodine
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as Serafima Vitalyevna
as Arthur Siromaka
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as Sonia Sologdine
as Poskrebychev
as Alexei Velakovsky
as Russian Officer
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as Oskolupov
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as Roitman
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as Mechanic
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