The Way Back" is the fact-based story
no, its fraudulent fiction, shamelessly claiming to be true, made up by a russian-jewish lieutenant who got released from prison due to a documented amnesty and not by escape
as can be seen from the trailer the story has been augmented to be even more unbelievable (storms, looters, oases, himalayas and whatnot)
for details about the hoax from people who know something about climbing:
Code:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=58559
also, gulags were mostly populated by political prisoners and ordinary people (regime critics or falsely accused ones) and they were labor camps, certainly not the worlds 'most brutal' prison system (this title would suit those prisons that are hidden/unrevealed/secret, with no other purpose than torture), furthermore seems the death toll in gulags has been quite exaggerated, a nasty habit of extremist/biased/winner-side 'historians' (for a well documented example of such a deception see the 'revisionists' site regarding the h0l0caust)
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