The Gulag
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- Stuff I Looked Up
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- history, soviet
“No, this wasn’t a specific place. It was technically the name of the Soviet agency that managed the forced labor camps of the Lenin and Stalin eras. In the Western world, the term ‘gulag’ came to refer to the generic Soviet system of camps, regardless of where they were. There were hundreds of…”