stackyFACTSKnown as the 'Road of Bones,' this grim 1,200-mile stretch in the Russian Far East was built by gulag prisoners under Stalin’s reign. Because burying the thousands of workers who froze to death in the permafrost was too difficult, their bodies were simply crushed and mixed directly into the road's foundation. The ultimate, literal dead-end commute.
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