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Bookmark or Share- Gulag - WikipediaThe Gulag spanned nearly four decades of Soviet and East European history and affected millions of individuals. Its cultural impact was enormous. The Gulag has become a major influence on contemporary Russian thinking, and an important part of modern Russian folklore.
- What was the GULAG? - Russia Beyond‘GULag’ is the correct spelling of the acronym for Главное управление лагерей (Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerei; “Main Directorate of Camps”). But this abbreviation became a frequently used...
- The terror of the gulags: Stalin’s iron-fisted control over Soviet ...From the 1920s through to the 1950s, under the iron-clad rule of Joseph Stalin, a system of labor camps known as 'gulags' carved a harsh scar on the psyche of the Soviet Union.
- How The Soviet Gulag System Brutalized Millions In The 20th CenturyStarted by Vladimir Lenin, and expanded by Joseph Stalin, gulags made up a defining part of life in the Soviet Union. As many as 30,000 camps operated across the USSR, where prisoners served years-long sentences for offenses as innocuous as making a drunken joke or showing up late to work.
- Gulag | Definition, History, Prison, & Facts | BritannicaGulag, system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed the political prisoners and criminals of the Soviet Union. At its height, the Gulag imprisoned millions of people.
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