In November, shortly before the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian authorities moved to close down one of the country's oldest and most influential NGOs, Memorial, which wa…
What was the GULAG? Archive photo;Antonu(CC BY-SA 3.0); Russia Beyond To describe the Soviet penal system, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who survived eight years of Gulag incarceration, wrote a massive book titled ‘Archipelago Gulag’ after collecting hundreds of memoirs of other people who managed to outlive the labor camps. We dare to give you a short explanation of this awful page in Soviet history.
GULAG - what does it mean?
Soviet people commonly used the word
лагеря (lagerya; “camps”) to refer to the penal system, as the word ‘Gulag’ in fact means the management of the labor camps. ‘GULag’ is the correct spelling of the acronym for
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