What is it???
How/Why Used???
Impact on Russian Society???
2007-01-17 11:01:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
A Gulag was a "concentration camp" used by the Soviets. It was mostly for those whom Stalin had considered a threat to his power. He became so paranoid that millions died in these camps. They were supposed to be for forced labor but ended up being camps of death since people were often worked to death or were simply never heard from again. A brilliant legacy of Stalin...
2007-01-17 11:07:24 · answer #1 · answered by DaveMan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Gulags were a number of prison labour camps located in Siberia, Russia. Originally used by the Czars to exile criminals and political opponents. The Gulags we're most notorious under Joseph Stallin who sent people to Siberia on a whim...
2007-01-17 19:07:50 · answer #2 · answered by Ryan W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a big prison/labor camp way out in the middle of nowhere, a place where you send people you never want to see again... Fifty is an old, old man in a gulag. America should have one in the middle of Saskatchewan for a dumping ground of the dregs of society, a place where the worthless can live out their wicked lives in abject misery and think about what they did to get sent there for the rest of their short unhappy lives.
2007-01-17 19:16:49 · answer #3 · answered by eggman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
prison camp for political dissidents. put define: gulag into google
or just google it, don't be lazy.
2007-01-17 19:07:10 · answer #4 · answered by waiting for the world to change 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋