it was because of a political joke.
sebria and the 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.
People who are critical of the government are normal the inhabitants of gulags.
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.
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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.
After Bukharin's death, his wife and son were sent to Gulags. His wife later remarried and had two more children.