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You are most likely referring to the "ГУЛаг" ("GULag" - capitalized to indicate word stress) system that was implemented in the Soviet Union from the 1930's to the 1960's. The system of prison and labor camps held prisoners convicted of many different crimes but became well-known for its role in increasing the political repression in the Soviet Union. as many political dissidents were sent there by the Soviet authorities.
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When did Russian labor camps begin to be used?
1800
What were the cambodian teen labor camps called?
The killing fields
What is it called where Jewish prisoners in labor camps slept?
barracks usually.
In the 1960's and the 1970's the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote?
novels about life in labor camps or political prisoners
What were labor camps called that suspected traitors of communist regime were sent to?
Gulags .
What was some of the labor in the concentration camps of the holocaust?
Here are few Labor Camps which the Nazis used during the Holocaust.Alderney Labor CampArbietsdorf Labor CampBuchenwald Labor CampDachau Labor CampFlossenburg Labor CampPlaszow Labor CampRavensbruck Labor CampSachsenhausen Labor CampPlease see related link for more Labor Camps including Concentration Camps and Extermination Camp.
What was the name of the force labor camps prison in Russia?
there were hundreds, the system was called Gulag.
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 kind of camps did Hitler?
labor and concentration camps
What were the names of Russian prison camps?
They are sometimes referred to collectively as The Gulag.
How many people died in Russian labor camps?
Russians killed and mutilated approximately 80 million people, half of them at prison camps and disciplinary battalions.
Are work camps and labor camps the same thing?
essentially yes.
