"TudorHgh" wrote in message
...
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.

isn't it in "On Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" where the comment is
made along the lines of

"What is it like at 60 below?"

"Well you don't **** outside for a start"

Certainly a book well worth reading for our cold weather lovers :-)))

Jim Webster

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.