it was because of a political joke.
sebria and the Gulags
People who are critical of the government are normal the inhabitants of gulags.
Created the Gulags, which were slave labor camps where he sent people who talked openly about their discontent with the government, as well as those who opposed communism. The Gulags killed over 12 million people.
Stalin's opponents were sent to the Siberian labor camps called gulags where they were worked to death if not they would kill him.
Gulags were labour camps in Soviet Russia. You could be sent there for many reasons, peasants were sent there because they opposed collectivisation, which was were the government took their farm and all their possessions.
Gulags .
The gulags
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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
Because he was a ruthless (Communist) dictator. He sent everyone to the gulags who disagreed with him or he found too popular. His paranoia to find enemies in the rows of his party led him to murder a lot of his previous comrades.