Forced-Labor Camps (Gulags and individual local camps) in the Soviet Union (1951)
Russian officials are reportedly destroying the records of gulag prisoners under a secret order passed in 2014, Russian media have reported. An estimated 3-12 million victims of Soviet repression were imprisoned in the gulag network of prisons and forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union. themoscowtimes.com/news/r…
TIL that the Soviet Union built a canal connecting the White and Baltic Seas in 1933 by using forced labor from gulag inmates, only for it to be too shallow for most ships. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whi…
TIL Ekaterina Kalininia was the First Lady of the Soviet Union from to 1922 - 1946. During this time she was suspected of being anti-Stalin leading to her being tortured and spending 8 years in a forced labor camp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka…
A Forgotten People The Sakhalin Koreans (1995) - Koreans were brought by the Japanese to the island as forced laborers during the war, only to be abandoned to the Soviet Union in 1945. Forgotten by everyone including their own country, less than 1,000 remain of the original 43,000 laborers. youtube.com/watch?v=m2Tjv…
Donauschwaben women pulling a plow during their 5 year forced labor in Soviet Union as war reparations, ca. 1945 [504x256]
TIL Following WWII, the Soviet Union deported 874,000 Eastern Germans to be used as forced labor. Roughly 40% of the deported German civilians were reported dead or missing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For…
TIL that the collapse of the Soviet Union directly correlated with the resurgence of Cuba’s amazing coral reef. Without Russian supplied synthetic fertilizers and ag practices, Cubans were forced to depend on organic farming. This led to less chemical runoff in the oceans. psmag.com/news/inside-the…
Lathe made by inmates in the Soviet Union's largest gulag labor camp - "Karlag" in Kazakhstan.
"In the countries of capitalism - lack of rights in labor! In the country of Socialism - the right to work!' 1948, Koretsky, Soviet Union
TIL when the Soviet Union was pushing towards Berlin, an SS soldier was forced to play a piano for his captors. They made it clear in sign language that he would be executed the moment he stopped. He played for 22 hours, after which he collapsed in tears. They congratulated him, then shot him. hoover.org/research/conte…
TIL that in 1989 around 2 million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania held hands in peaceful protest against the Soviet Union, creating a chain of people that was 600 km long. Known as the Baltic Chain, it sparked demonstrations overseas and forced the USSR to acknowledge its crimes. thebalticway.eu/en/histor…
In Russia, PRAVDA the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the people were forced to fund the news. In the US, NPR the unofficial PR wing of the DNC, the people are also forced to fund the news. NPR/PBS is 32% funded by taxes.
Of all the underwater sites around the world, Estonia's semi-emerged Rummu Prison might just be the creepiest. The prison was built by the Soviet Union and filled with inmates in the 1940s, prisoners were forced to work in the nearby limestone quarry. The jail was abandoned. More info In comments.
TIL that the collapse of the Soviet Union directly correlated with the resurgence of Cuba’s amazing coral reef. Without Russian supplied synthetic fertilizers and ag practices, Cubans were forced to depend on organic farming. This led to less chemical runoff in the oceans. psmag.com/news/inside-the…
In Russia, PRAVDA the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the people were forced to fund the news. In the US, NPR the unofficial PR wing of the DNC, the people are also forced to fund the news. NPR/PBS is 32% funded by taxes.
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On March 5, 1953, the heart of Joseph Stalin, one of the leading figures in the Communist Party and the Soviet Union, the leader of the international communist and labor movement, stopped beating.
Mugshot of Ivan Burylov, a beekeeper arrested and sentenced to forced labor in a gulag for writing the word “Comedy” his ballot during a Soviet Communist Party office election in 1949. [640 x 1136]
Relevant for /r/Florida! TIL that the collapse of the Soviet Union directly correlated with the resurgence of Cuba’s amazing coral reef. Without Russian supplied synthetic fertilizers and ag practices, Cubans were forced to depend on organic farming. This led to less chemical runoff in the oceans. psmag.com/news/inside-the…
[todayilearned] TIL that the collapse of the Soviet Union directly correlated with the resurgence of Cuba’s amazing coral reef. Without Russian supplied synthetic fertilizers and ag practices, Cubans were forced to depend on organic farming. This led to less chemical runoff in the oceans. psmag.com/news/inside-the…
The collapse of the Soviet Union directly correlated with the resurgence of Cuba’s amazing coral reef. Without Russian supplied synthetic fertilizers and ag practices, Cubans were forced to depend on organic farming. This led to less chemical runoff in the oceans. psmag.com/news/inside-the…
Seeing Red in America (1983) - A history of the American communist party told by its former members about racism, the labor movement, the Soviet Union, McCarthyism and Khruschev's Secret Speech youtu.be/nhmGVnHxtf0
Old Khndzoresk is an abandoned village in Armenia made up of ancient cave dwellings, some connected to each other by ropes and ladders. It was reportedly still inhabited until the 1950s, when the Soviet Union forced the villagers out, deeming their settlement "uncivilized."
Anarchist tries to justify forced deportations in the Soviet Union ceddit.com/r/neoliberal/c…
TIL that in one night in 1946, the Soviet intelligence agents kidnapped more than 2,200 German scientists and engineers for forced labour in the Soviet Union. Most were held for 6 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ope…
The requisition of grains from wealthy peasants (kulaks) during the forced collectivization in Timashyovsky District, Kuban Soviet Union. 1933
TIL that Stalin's Soviet Union officially recorded the deaths of at least 3,000,000 people by execution, death in the Gulags or forced resettlement. With an estimated 15 million deaths at least by policy decisions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas…
TIL The New York Times in 1932 defended the Soviet Union's genocide of 7 million Ukrainians via forced starvation twitter.com/dailysignal/s…
Rick Gates, Wilbur Ross and the lure of Trump corruption: Trump isn't merely someone who skirts around the rules now and again; he may well be the single most corrupt major business figure in America. He’s someone who used illegal labor, who did business with kleptocrats from the former Soviet Union washingtonpost.com/blogs/…
Old Khndzoresk is an abandoned village in Armenia made up of ancient cave dwellings, some connected to each other by ropes and ladders. It was still inhabited until the 1950s, when the Soviet Union reportedly forced the villagers out, deeming their settlement "uncivilized."
TIL Under the order of the US, Britain, & the Soviet Union, from 1945-1950, Europe witnessed the largest episode of forced migration, & perhaps the single greatest movement of population, in human history. chronicle.com/article/The…
If under the URSS regime Gulag was the government agency in charge the Soviet forced labor camp system, how were the camps where people worked called?
I must have been misinformed because I always thought gulags were the camps where the work was done, but I just read differently on wikipedia where it's stated that Gulag was a government agency. So did they just call the camps " lagers"(concentration camps) like the Germans did? since the "lag" at the and of Gulag stands for Lagerej which is basically lager in German(or just concentration camps).
TIL that 1,418 entrance steps (one for each day the Soviet Union fought in the WWII) of the new 95m-tall “Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces” are forged from melted-down hardware seized from Nazi troops. bbc.com/news/amp/world-eu…
During the GULag era of the Soviet justice system, how many people were incarcerated in other facilities? Which offenses warranted forced labor?
There are numerous cases, real and anecdotal, of petty and/or victimless crimes in the Soviet union being spun into prison sentences: swearing in public getting 15 days in the slammer, or a man picking flowers for his girlfriend getting 10 days for vandalism, and so on. By definition, this implies the existence of petty crimes and short legal sentences.
However, statistics have been proven to be somewhat difficult to find.
A primary source of confusion is the GULag (the ministry in charge of the entire punitive system) / gulags (forced labor camps that are colloquially named after it). The confusion is to such extent that Zemskov's estimates for correctional labor camp population in 1953 (about 1.7 million) are assumed to be the total incarcerated pop of the Soviet Union, even though he lists an additional 750000 prisoners in correctional labor colonies that same year, also sometimes included in the definition of "gulag". However, there, naturally, were prisons and jails, since it's logistically unfeasible to ferry people into a camp in another city for a 10-day sentence and immediately back. How many people were incarcerated in them, and what was the key deciding factor between the two systems?
[todayilearned] TIL about White Coke; a 1940s clear Coca Cola variant made at the request of Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (Armed Forces chief), and packaged in plain straight bottles because. Zhukov wanted a version that would look like he was drinking vodka instead of a symbol of West en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whi…
TIL rumors spread across labor camps in the Soviet Union that injecting crows blood would result in a hallucinogen-like high. vice.com/read/soviet-proh…
Being forced to play an ancient edition of Trivial Pursuit with your relatives at Xmas and having to answer questions on the Soviet Union.
Later there was also an obligatory question on Yugoslavia.
