Both Soviet gulags were and North Korean Concentration Camps are mass prisons for detention and torture of political prisoners and undesirables. They were not generally designed for actual violent criminals (murderers, thieves, rapists, etc.), but for people who committed a thought-crime or violated restrictive speech laws (political activists, democracy promoters, religious advocates, etc.). China has a similar type of system called the Laogai.
Gulags existed in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1960. Gulags where referred to as "Corrective Labor Camps" in the Soviet Union, and included forced labor, and punishment.
Yes, the USSR had many "concentration camps" but they were mainly forced labour camps, their was 53 separate camps and 423 labour colonies. Most of these were located in Western side of the USSR and along South and South east of the Soviet Union. These were called "Gulags". The USSR hold people in these Gulags for the simplest of crimes eg. Littering and all the way to Political Prisoners. See related Link for more info.
They are sometimes referred to collectively as the Gulag.
Gulags, forced deportation, these guys knew all kinds of ways to keep dissidents quiet
A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents.
Gulags existed in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1960. Gulags where referred to as "Corrective Labor Camps" in the Soviet Union, and included forced labor, and punishment.
Labor camps
Gulags.
to use politcal prisoniers to improve soviet infrastructure.
They are sometimes referred to collectively as the Gulag.
Yes, the USSR had many "concentration camps" but they were mainly forced labour camps, their was 53 separate camps and 423 labour colonies. Most of these were located in Western side of the USSR and along South and South east of the Soviet Union. These were called "Gulags". The USSR hold people in these Gulags for the simplest of crimes eg. Littering and all the way to Political Prisoners. See related Link for more info.
no gulags
Gulags, forced deportation, these guys knew all kinds of ways to keep dissidents quiet
The Russian gulags were located in various locations across the Soviet Union, including Siberia, the Russian Far East, and other remote regions. They were often situated in harsh and remote areas to isolate and punish prisoners.
gulags were located in Russia, starting in laborea, the gulags spred in hundreds all over the Russian county union
People who are critical of the government are normal the inhabitants of gulags.
All Gulags were to found in Russia, scattered over a very wide area. There were at least 476 separate camps, some of them comprising hundreds, even thousands of camp units.