WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -During the Stalin era, Magadan was a major transit center for prisoners sent to the Kolyma camps.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gulags were active from the 1920s until shortly after Stalin’s death in 1953. They functioned as forced-labour camps, where those detained were subject to inhumane, labour-intensive work, such as digging, industrial work, and crop maintenance. Under Stalin’s rule, thousands died of disease, exhaustion, and starvation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Introduction: Stalin’s Gulag 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: -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-5: -From 1918 to 1987, Soviet Russia operated a network of hundreds of prison camps that held up to 10, 000 people each. When Stalin launched his infamous purges in 1936, millions of so-called political prisoners were arrested and transported to the gulags without trial.