He joined a population of prisoners that, by January 1941, numbered 2.9 million, and were held in a vast network of prisons, labor camps and colonies across the Soviet Union. You may like ...

Frozen wastelands, brutal forced labor, and millions of prisoners—inside the Soviet Gulags, survival was a daily battle! Simple History. Gulags: The Brutal Soviet Labor Camps of the Cold War.

Soviet industry needed metals, and Norilsk sprang up around a copper-nickel plant, also operated by prison labor. “The Norilsk camps were not the worst in the Gulag system,” says local ...

Eva Hoffman-Jedruch, the daughter of a deportee to a Soviet labor camp, will speak at the Summit Library next week. Hoffman-Jedruch, who was born in Lwów, Poland -- now Lviv, Ukraine -- was ...

On October 13, 1942, a barge containing prisoners en route to a Soviet labor camp in the remote Arctic city of Norilsk took on water along the Yenisei River. Different accounts suggest it was the ...

Lviv, Ukraine, Dec 20, 2018 / 11:20 am "I can honestly say that the labor camp was the best place to understand what 'love your enemy' really means," said Myroslav Marynovych, a Ukrainian Catholic ...

Moscow has revived the Soviet-era labor camp. By Anne Applebaum. Evgeniy Maloletka / AP. July 14, 2023. Share. Save.

Madrid, Nov 18 (EFE). — The documentary “Los olvidados de Karaganda” (The Forgotten of Karaganda), presented on Tuesday at the headquarters of Agencia EFE in Madrid, tells the story of 152 ...

In 2011, I was at the Hoover Institution Archives sifting through the papers of the Latvian poet and journalist Arsenii Formakov (1900-1983) when I noticed a folder of letters encased in clear ...