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I have read that they were referred to as "katorga" (forced labour) camps. Source: Wikipedia article on Dostoevsky, who spent several years in such a camp near Omsk. I am preparing a presentation on Dostoevsky, so am interested in getting the term right. However, I have not been able to confirm this as a correct Russian word with a friend who is fluent in the language.
Alex McKenzie, Hertford, England
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoThey were nicknamed gulags.
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What was the Gulag?
A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union, especially for political dissidents.
What was the gulag system?
A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union, especially for political dissidents.
What are the common traits amongst gulags?
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.
What were gulag inmates called?
Gulag inmates were commonly referred to as "zeks" in the Soviet Union. This term was derived from the Russian abbreviation for "prisoner" (z/k) and was often used to describe the forced laborers in the Soviet labor camps.
What groups were sent to both Nazi concentration camps and soviet labor camps?
People with a Polish background were often sent to both Nazi concentration camps and Soviet labor camps. Both Germany and the Soviet Union wanted control of Poland.
What is the gulags?
A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents.
Anyone who opposed communism in the Soviet Union was sent .?
To Prison Camps In Siberia
What is gulag system?
The Gulag was the government agency that administration the forced labor camp system for prisoners in the Soviet Union from 1923 until 1961. The camps were nicknamed 'Gulags', after the authority that administrated them.
Soviet Labor Camps?
They are sometimes referred to collectively as the Gulag.
How do you put gulag in a sentence?
The Gulag or GULAG was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union.
How many Jews were at the death camps?
About 1.8-2 million Jews were killed in open air shootings (mainly in the former Soviet Union) and by being forced to live in intolerable conditions in ghettos. About 4 million were killed in extermination and concentration camps, by forced labour and gassing. The number of survivors (in the sense of people actually taken to camps who emerged alive when they were liberated) was very small. So, the answer to your question is: about 4 million (but obviously not all at the same time).
What were the detention centers called where Jews were forced to move and where many were killed?
They were called concentration camps.
