The Trump administration is seeking deals with more and more nations to hold deportees — now with the blessing of the Supreme ...

“Gulag” is often used to describe any Soviet prison or camp, especially in Western media. This is not quite accurate. In actual fact, the Gulag (a Russian abbreviation of General Directorate ...

These gulag camps — which are separate from the country’s more conventional prison systems — are thought to house 100,000 or more people, including many women and children.Often, entire ...

Norilsk camp. Gulag History Museum The Norilsk camp existed from 1935 to 1956, (in the early 1950s it held the record amount of prisoners - up to 72,000). The list of ...

Anne Applebaum, whose book Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, has written that some of these camps had grown from “containing nothing more than a few huts and some ...

The Forgotten Gulag Camps Of Chukotka April 29, 2015 10:00 CET The Chukotka peninsula is Russia's most northeastern expanse, stretching into the Bering Strait less than 100 kilometers from Alaska.

Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives. Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the ...

The Gulag, established after the Bolsheviks took control of Russia in 1917, was the governmental body responsible for the extensive prison and labor camp network in the Soviet Union. It reached ...

The camp was connected to a small metal-working plant. Potashov’s job was to push a cart containing 500 pounds of raw metal to various work stations in the factory. The prisoners worked from 7 a ...

The Gulag system, a grim hallmark of Stalin’s Soviet Union, was designed to repress and uproot millions, particularly ...