SOVIET GULAG

Work in the gulag
The work was forced upon the Russian prisoners. It was back breaking labor that varied from camp to camp.labor was done in any weather condition.

Women in the gulag
Women suffered greatly in the gulag, they were raped very often and also abused. If they got preganant they were usually released. They were looked at as mothers of the camps and were forced to do everything cleaning wise in the gulag

Life in the gulag
When there wasn't work, prisoners were kept in crowded barracks and outside surrounded by barbed wire fences. There was always violence going on between the guards and prisoners and also violence between the prisoners and other prisoners. Not much food was givin to the prisoners causing many deaths.

Crimes
The crimes people committed to be put in the camps were rape, murder, robbery, and theft. Crooked politicians and foreigners were also sent to the camps. If some didn't show up to work or back talked their boss they could be sent to a lower grade camp.

Perm 36
This region was deep in the forests surrounded by trees the prisoners were forced to cut down the trees using saws and they would have to cut miles and miles of trees down and they also had to cut them up and move them as well. There were over 150,000 prisoners in the perm 36 region divided into 150 different camps. Perm 36 was one of the most brutal and heavily guarded camps there was.

Alexander Dolgun
Alexander was born in America but his family moved to the Soviet Union because his family was looking for work. Alexander was arrested because people in the Soviet Union thought him and his family were spy's and he spent 8 years in the gulag until he was able to prove he wasn't a spy

GULAG

• Work camps
• Over 150 camps
• Back breaking work
• People in these camps worked from sun up to sun down with barely any clothing to keep them warm
• People in the gulag were kept in cold dark barracks
• Diseases were spread very easily in the gulag
• The prisoners were beaten and poorly feed

HOLOCAUST

• Jewish people were the prisoners
• They were starved and worked to death in freezing temperatures
• A lot less survivors than the gulag
• When the Jewish people weren't fit enough to work they were executed
• The Jewish people were kept In barns and train cars
• Worked in freezing cold weather with barely any clothing

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Where some of the gulag camps were located

Prisoners waiting for their commands

One of the gulags main torture positions

WORK CITED

• Www.gulaghistory.org
• Www.dailymail.co.uk