when I were a lad you merely had to insult a commissar and you could go to
Siberia for nothing

Jim Webster


Nice one! But every cloud has a silver lining. The small town of Ojmjakon
was used as a place of internal exile for people who didn't toe the line in
Soviet days, and had that not been the case, it might well not exist today, and
certainly not have a met station. As it is, it's the coldest town in the
world. But you'd get very bored, if you survived at all, with a January mean
of -50°C. It's barely possible to go out.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.