They are sometimes referred to collectively as The Gulag.
Russian prison camps were known as Gulags.
Gulags.
gulag
To Prison Camps In Siberia
Russians killed and mutilated approximately 80 million people, half of them at prison camps and disciplinary battalions.
extermination camps
concentration camps.
gulag
To Prison Camps In Siberia
The tattoo was their prison number which was used like their names. However, contrary to a widespread misconception, tattooed numbers were only used in the Auschwitz group of camps.
Russians killed and mutilated approximately 80 million people, half of them at prison camps and disciplinary battalions.
Russian prison camps were spread throughout Russia and it's later territories under the Soviet Union. The most famous region where many of these isolated camps were located was in north eastern Siberia.
extermination camps
extermination camps
there were over 500
1800
There have been and are many euphemisms used at various times, these include; resettlement camps, re-education camps, prison camps and personal protection camps.
concentration camps.
concentration camps