Frozen wastelands, brutal forced labor, and millions of prisoners—inside the Soviet Gulags, survival was a daily battle! Senate votes to avoid government shutdown as 10 Democrats vote with ...

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 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

A food bowl near a derelict labor camp. Prisoners on the project ... As well as those sent away for 10-year sentences for anti-Soviet activities, the gulag camps of the railway were also occupied ...

In a manuscript that reached the Western press last week, Ukrainian Television Newsman Vyacheslav Chornovil, who is now in a Soviet labor camp, detailed the repressive methods of the Ukrainian ...

After the war ended, Shinohara was detained by the Soviet Union and sent to an internment camp in a Moscow suburb. He was forced to do hard labor outdoors even in the winter as the temperatures ...

The use convict labor isn't new to Russia. The practice dates back to the Soviet era's "Gulag" system, where convicts were assigned to work in the riskiest and most "lucrative" sectors of the ...