Frozen wastelands, brutal forced labor, and millions of prisoners—inside the Soviet Gulags, survival was a daily battle!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...