Lurking in the freezer…. | Golf Monthly
Matthew Sanders
Updated on April 06, 2026
Made me think of of this.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Man Who Exposed the Gulag
Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced his former master’s paranoid and extremely repressive style of rule. In 1956, Khrushchev demanded that the Party reject Stalin’s “cult of personality.” Soviet citizens, and Soviet writers, began cautiously...
quote: In 1949 some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences. It reported in tiny type that in the course of excavations on the Kolyma River a subterranean ice lens had been discovered which was actually a frozen stream — and in it were found frozen specimens of prehistoric fauna some tens of thousands of years old.
Whether fish or salamander, these were preserved in so fresh a state, the scientific correspondent reported, that those present immediately broke open the ice encasing the specimens and devoured them with relish on the spot.