Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize the accomplishments of Soviet born artist. Nikolai Getman. a refugee of the Soviet Gulag. the immense series of prison camps that extended across the length and breadth of the former Soviet Union. His paintings have given us a unique insight into the ghastly life of the Gulag. This exhibition. a collection of paintings depicting life at the Gulag. is of immense historical importance. Over the past several months the Jamestown Foundation. a nonprofit organization which focuses on the former Soviet Union. has raised funds to bring these paintings to the United States and save them from possible destruction.