Interesting that most of them located around trans-siberian railway and Eastern Europe. Less in northern Siberia as we have heard most. Maybe they are biggest and most cruel ones!
“The camps were closed immediately after Stalin’s death in 1953” is a very popular bit of revisionist history, but it is revisionist history nonetheless. (Not to accuse OP of pushing revisionist history, it’s not uncommon for people to be taught the USSR abandoned a lot of these practices for good in the Khrushchev years.)
My grandmother was a doctor at the one in Vorkuta. That one was for mining coal. She mainly worked with the people who were called the "the idiots" they were the artists and the intellectual class. They were called that because they were not good at mining coal.
Tobby_96 on August 6th, 2019 at 14:08 UTC »
Interesting that most of them located around trans-siberian railway and Eastern Europe. Less in northern Siberia as we have heard most. Maybe they are biggest and most cruel ones!
Seeattle_Seehawks on August 6th, 2019 at 16:47 UTC »
1929 to 1953? I wish.
The Gulag institution was closed by the MVD order No 020 of January 25, 1960 but forced labor colonies for political and criminal prisoners continued to exist. Political prisoners continued to be kept in one of the most famous camps Perm-36 until 1987
“The camps were closed immediately after Stalin’s death in 1953” is a very popular bit of revisionist history, but it is revisionist history nonetheless. (Not to accuse OP of pushing revisionist history, it’s not uncommon for people to be taught the USSR abandoned a lot of these practices for good in the Khrushchev years.)
plutoniumsalmon on August 6th, 2019 at 17:41 UTC »
My grandmother was a doctor at the one in Vorkuta. That one was for mining coal. She mainly worked with the people who were called the "the idiots" they were the artists and the intellectual class. They were called that because they were not good at mining coal.