Berijan tarhat

For a couple of days I've had some time off for reading. And thus I've been reading UntoParvilahti 's book Berijan tarhat (=Beria's Garden). It's a very shocking and frightening story of a finnish man who was sentenced for almost no reason at all to forced-labour in the concentration camps of the Soviet Union. The time was the last ten years of Stalin's regime. And the master of concentration camps was mister Beria. This couple - Stalin and Berija - was one of the most horrendous ever met by the mankind. The number of dead was more than what Hitler "achieved"... Parvilahti wrote the book after he was reliesed, after ten years of horrors, back to Finland. And somehow his text is not at all bitter.

Now is all recorded for my composition Joulukuun hidas sade (=Slow rain of December). I played flute and bass guitar. Sini sang her parts. Mixing tomorrow or later.

Juha H.