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My Derby lass and I have taken a taxi to take us to ALZHIR, Stalin’s gulag for Wives of the Betrayers of the Homeland. En route we pass a Kazakh graveyard where we notice a circle of some 50 Russian fur hats bowed in respect towards the ground. “No women?” I ask our taxi driver, for the bearers of said hats were all male (and all Kazakh). “No,” he confirmed. “Crying is not allowed at Kazakh funerals, so women are not allowed. The women stay at home and cry.”

The graveyard and not the funeral...for obvious reasons