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🗓️ 27 February 2024
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Artek, on the shores of the Black Sea in Crimea, was a hugely popular Soviet holiday camp.
Maria Kim Espeland was one of the thousands of children who visited every year.
In 2014, she told Lucy Burns about life in the camp in the 1980s.
(Photo: A group of children attending Artek. Credit: Irina Vlasova)
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0:00.0 | If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them? |
0:06.0 | Anonymity is our most valuable gift. |
0:09.0 | I'm Kirstie Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self. |
0:16.0 | Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer. |
0:20.0 | Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B. |
0:24.2 | I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things. |
0:30.1 | Young again, with me, Kirstie Young. |
0:33.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:45.0 | We're heading off to Soviet Russia's most popular holiday camp. |
0:49.0 | During the 20th century, Artec in Crimea welcomed thousands of children each year. |
0:56.0 | One of them was Maria Kim Espeland, who visited in the 1980s. |
1:00.9 | She told Lucy Burns in 2014 about her mixed feelings for the camp. It's the summer of 1981 and |
1:12.0 | the it's the summer of 1981 and |
1:18.0 | and 15 year old Maria Kim |
1:22.0 | is one of thousands of children from all over the Soviet Union |
1:26.0 | having a holiday at Artec by the Black Sea in Crimea. |
1:30.0 | This were the happiest periods of my childhood. It's a wonderful place. |
1:34.6 | What was Artic? |
1:36.1 | I have two different answers to this question. |
1:39.3 | Little young pioneer Maria wants to answer that Atowak was a great place where the very best, the brightest kids from all the Soviet Union and actually all over the world could come and spend 30 days. |
1:54.7 | A grown-up, Maria wants to say, this was a communist concept of brainwashing children. |
2:02.0 | Our tech had been built in 1925 as a children's sanatorium and it soon became a holiday camp for members of the |
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