一位南方朋友问我,北大荒是不是西伯利亚?西伯利亚是俄罗斯最严寒地带,沙俄时期的流放地;而北大荒何尝不是中国的最严寒地带,在明清年代又何尝不是谪戍地与流放地?当年倘若提“宁古塔”3个字,哪位官吏不心惊胆颤?即使在解放后,许多劳改农场不都设在北大荒么?尽管如此,在我的感情上,却无法把北大荒与西伯利亚扯在一起…… A southern friend asked me whether the Great Northern Wilderness is Siberia? Siberia is Russia’s coldest area, the exile during the tsarist Russia; and the Northern Great Wilderness is not the worst in China, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and why not garrison and exile In the past, if the mention of “Ningguta” 3 words, which officials not frightened? Even after the liberation, many labor reform farms are not located in the Great Northern Wilder? However, in my feelings, but Can not pull the northern great wilderness together with Siberia ......