Soviet mystery from the 1950s

Eyes and tongues missing , Very Strange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

One for CCDA imo

I listened to the whole BBC soundtrack but didn't find it very interesting. I don't understand why they didn't consider a dangerous wild animal (of which there are a few - bears, wolves, wolverine - in the Urals) getting into the tent and they all tried to run away but wouldn't have got far in the cold.

I doubt it is as X files as they make out .....50's communist Russia  ....dead people in wilderness .....

My  first thought was escaped prisoners from the labour camps in the area (described in the article). The students would have been primarily targeted in order to steal their supplies. But beyond that, you need to put out of your mind the image of the victims presented in this article: of them being clean-living model students. This is 1950s Soviet Russia. To anyone not in their inner circle, these would have been the fanatical members of the Communist Party they undoubtedly were. How else would they have been living such privileged lives?

I'd suggest that they were attacked in a murderous spirit of revenge. That would be consistent with the evidence suggesting the victims were beaten and/or tortured. Some of the more bizarre injuries could well have been caused by scavenging animals in the weeks before the corpses were discovered.

It's the one line of enquiry that's not going to be pursued, because to this day neither the Russian people (nor westerners unwilling to accept the evil of communism) are willing to face up to the scale and the monstrous inhumanity of the forced labour which kept the system afloat.

But in the 1950s, the Mansi weren’t the only people living here. After travelling for hours on our snowmobiles past icy swamps, fields and forests, we stop at a crossroads. Alexander takes us down a path to a series of badly dilapidated houses, half-buried in snow. It is not an abandoned village, but the remains of lodgings built for prison guards.

There was once a network of prison camps in the north Urals known as Ivdel-lag, where 30,000 inmates built roads, cut and processed timber and laboured in makeshift factories. The camp had a reputation as one of the most atrocious and violent in the entire gulag system. Yet few tried to escape because of the remote location and the harsh climate. I stare at the gaping windows and missing roofs and feel a shiver down my spine.

Another soviet mystery the  Tunguska event of 1908 is an interesting read.

There is a low budget horror film based on it .....experiments  ,time travel......