4000 MILES WALK IN 1941 FOR FREEDOM - Did it really happened ?

First time the incredible story  in the history of humans occurred in 1941. And after passage of more than 70 years, still one of the greatest escape story truth moving around between different puzzles. One of the great Media group BBC Network was still investigating the real truth and unanswered questions behind the secret walk.

In 1941, the seven fellow prisoners escaped from a Gulag Soviet labor camp (prison) in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Seven companions escaped from the camp in the middle of a blizzard in 1941 and headed south, avoiding towns.A group of seven members included three Polish soldiers, a Latvian landowner, a Lithuanian architect, and an enigmatic US metro engineer called "Mr. Smith" and they were later joined by a 17-year-old Polish girl, Krystyna. They journeyed from Siberia to India crossing the Gobi Desert and Himalayas. Four of the group died in middle of the journey and they, two in the Gobi, two in the Himalayas.And almost finally remained three of them traveled to their finish point nearly 4000 Miles in the history of Humans and proved one of the great escape in World War 11.

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The Only question : Is it true ?

Slavomir Rawicz described how, during the Second World War, he and a group of prisoners broke out of a gulag in the Soviet Union in 1941. They walked thousands of miles south from Siberia, through Mongolia, Tibet, across the Himalayas, to the safety of British India.

A clue may come from the story of Rupert Mayne, a British intelligence officer in wartime India. In Calcutta in 1942, he interviewed three emaciated men, who claimed to have escaped from Siberia.Mayne always believed their story was the same as that of The Long Walk - but telling the story years later, he could not remember their names. So the possibility remains that someone - if not Rawicz - achieved this extraordinary feat.

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The Long Walk was ghost-written by Ronald Downing based on conversations with Rawicz. It was released in the UK in 1956 and has sold over half a million copies worldwide and has been translated into 25 languages.

The film, The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir was inspired by the story and released in late 2010.