Days and Lives takes you inside the brutal system of forced labor concentration camps and the internal exile institution called the Gulag. Soviet authorities found the Gulag to be a useful tool in neutralizing, and often physically destroying, all real or imagined opposition to the Communist Party's dictatorship beginning in 1917. Since it also served as the main Soviet penal system, political prisoners were imprisoned with violent criminals. In the Stalin era, some 18 million people passed through the prisons and camps of the Gulag, and perhaps another 6 or 7 million were sent into exile. More than one and a half million prisoners died in the Gulag at the hands of their government. Even those who survived struggled to rebuild their lives when they were finally released.
http://gulaghistory.org
@Menfluence thanks grammar teacher...
gutenberg80 1 week ago
@gutenberg80 >sun of a bitch
>sun
LOL
Menfluence 1 week ago
My great great grandfather fought in Stalingrad, he was captured and imprisoned in the Gulags for 10 years. Not really what I call paradise.
Hussarer 2 weeks ago
AMERICA...no..but democracy!!!
2fast4uspartan 2 weeks ago
@Ultracactuar 70 milions murdered only in Russia in time of peace.70 milions...yes Russia state is TERRORIST. Comunism is terrorism...the number of deaths show it..Fuck YOU fucking sun of a bitch.
gutenberg80 1 month ago
@gutenberg80 Terrorist nation?? Communism aint Terrorism. idiot and it belongs to the History. go fuck your self idiot
Ultracactuar 1 month ago
Russia is the GREATEST terrorist nation in the world
gutenberg80 1 month ago
Most of these authoritarian regimes only operated under the veil of communism. They were highly immoral, inhumane, and unethical, and had abandoned communist & socialist principles not long after revolution. Nevertheless, the crimes of Stalin should not be forgotten, and it disgusts me that none of these Soviet thugs were ever trialed or convicted for their crimes against humanity.
justme85 1 month ago
@Thefight2012 no
DreamAboutSpace 2 months ago
@MrJustsomerandomguy Soviet union and russia is almost the same thing .
Thefight2012 2 months ago