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Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, estimates of Gulag victims ranged from 2.3 to 17.6 million (see History of Gulag population estimates). Mortality in Gulag camps in 1934–40 was 4–6 times higher than average in the Soviet Union. Post-1991 research by historians accessing archival materials brought this range down considerably.
Unlike Gulag camps, located primarily in remote areas (mostly in Siberia), most of the POW camps after the war were located in the European part of the Soviet Union (with notable exceptions of the Japanese POW in the Soviet Union), where the prisoners worked on restoration of the country's infrastructure destroyed during the war: roads ...
According to official Soviet estimates, more than 14 million people passed through the Gulag from 1929 to 1953, and a further 7 to 8 million were deported and exiled to remote areas of the Soviet Union. [16]
The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp (Russian: Воркутинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь, romanized: Vorkutinsky ispravitel'no-trudovoy lager'), commonly known as Vorkutlag (Воркутлаг), was a major Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ...
The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Kazakhstan, [6] [7] [8] Northern Caucasus, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia.
Political prisoners in the Gulag. Gulag or Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerej was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union.. The Gulag penal system was restricted, with little to no communication between different camps, and were not discussed in the wider Soviet society. [4]
He was sentenced to 25 years in a Siberian prison, the longest sentence handed down to a political prisoner since the fall of the Soviet Union. Kara-Murza during a hearing at the Basmanny District ...
Early Soviet Union invited foreigners, especially engineers and trained workers. Many of the arrived were sympathizers of the Communism and the Soviet Union in particular. [2] Others were just lured by the possibility of employment during the Great Depression. [3] During the Great Purge many of them were convicted