Controlling for things like population and education, no one region of the former Soviet Union was likely more prolific than the others in producing dissidents. However, those who were judged to have violated Soviet law or norms of behavior were subject to internal exile in Siberia and it is this region that is most associated with the fate of Soviet dissidents.

Dissidents

President Carter supported Soviet dissidents.

A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union, especially for political dissidents.

A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union, especially for political dissidents.