HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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Labor Camp, were people went voluntarily to help their government.
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A type of food that is very tasty
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Labor Camp, People sent to them for criticizing the government
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A camp for children to learn life skills
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Gulag was a system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons. From the 1920s to the mid-1950s it housed political prisoners and criminals of the Soviet Union. At its height, the Gulag imprisoned millions of people.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Gulag held many types of prisoners. It served as the Soviet Union’s main penal system: robbers, rapists, murderers, and thieves spent their sentences not in prisons but in the Gulag.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gulag camps existed throughout the Soviet Union, but the largest camps lay in the most extreme geographical and climatic regions of the country from the Arctic north to the Siberian east and the Central Asian south.
Detailed explanation-4: -The word Gulag is actually an acronym (used from 1930) for (Glavnoye Upravleniye LAGerey), or Main Camp Administration, which was a special division of the secret police and the Soviet Ministry of the Interior overseeing the use of the physical labour of prisoners.
Detailed explanation-5: -Vorkutinsky ispravitel’no-trudovoy lager’), commonly known as the Vorkuta Gulag ( ) or Vorkutlag (), was a major GULAG labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1932 to 1962.
Detailed explanation-6: -In the 20th century, the gulag was a system of Russian camps where political prisoners were sent to do forced labor. Officially, the last gulag closed in the 1950s. During the regimes of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union used gulags across the country to imprison political enemies.