Where do they bury the survivors?  There’s an old (and not
particularly difficult) riddle that goes something like this:
There is a plane that is flying close to the border between
Canada and the U.S.A. There is an engine failure and the plane
crashes right on the border of Canada and U.S.A. Where do they
bury the survivors?  The idea is that you are so fixated on the
significance of the rest of in the information provided in the
riddle that you miss the fact that survivors don’t get buried. 
Reading the following passage from David Remnick’s article about
political protest in Russia under communism and “democracy”, I
couldn’t help thinking there is more to this riddle.  When your
country’s history is as bleak as this, what does happen to the
survivors?   Vladimir Levitsky, a victim of the Soviet Gulag,
was briefly resurrected when an archivist chanced upon his
file.   Millions of other Russians who died do not even have a
file to be pulled. Today’s Russia, with its nominally
democratically-elected Putin/Med