The Gulag was the system of  Concentration Camps run by the Soviet Union. They do not quite make Auschwitz look like a fun place to be but they were much nastier. The Soviets managed to beat the alleged 6 million claimed by the Jews running the Holocaust® Racket. They did far better with their 40 million murders. Spartacus goes easy on them but Spartacus is run by communists. The pictures are out there - see Gulag In Pictures
PS More on this at Gulag - A History of the Soviet Camps by the Jew, Anne Applebaum or The Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, one the victims who survived to tell the tale. An honest view come from the Metapedia - see Gulag. There were women there too. Here they are written up. The Forgotten Women of the Gulag ex The American Interest. Some even survived. 

The GULAG museum Perm 36 is closing because the authorities have become hostile. 

Excursion to Gulag
In fact it was not bad; it was even worse. See The Gulag In Pictures  or

Concentration Camps In Russia
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After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the labour camps in Siberia were closed down. These were later reopened by Joseph Stalin and opponents of his regime were sent to what became known as Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagere (Gulag). Probably the worst of the labour camps was at Kolyma. Located in north-eastern Siberia, temperatures drop to -90 degrees during the winter. About 30 per cent of the prisoners in Kolyma died each year........ It is estimated that around 50 million perished in Soviet gulags between 1930 and 1950.
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Spartacus is going easy on Joe, Len et al. Spartacus is still a communist subversive operation.

GULAG Historian Get His Sentence Extended To 15 Years  
Yury A. Dmitriev of the Memorial_(society) was accused to taking pornographic photos of his foster daughter, aged 11. He got three and a half years then an extra ten. He was due out it November 2020 so they gave him an extra two years. No doubt he has taken the point that they don't want Joe Stalin's evil made public. The Wiki's article is sympathetic.

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Below are photos of labor prison camps of Soviet Time

Gulag stands for "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps." The system of Stalin's labor camps was the most monstrous death factory in all history, with 'production' exceeding even WW-II's Holocaust. Around 40 million died in Gulag labor camps

Camps were located in Taiga, a huge forest in Russian Siberia. Now, all roads are overgrown and only a helicopter can reach those sites.

Camps have been abandoned since summer 1953, when Stalin died. A general amnesty was announced and everyone, inmates and guards alike, quickly fled the area.

Roosevelt observed that capitalism is unequally divided riches while socialism is equally divided poverty. Gulag prison life meant an equal distribution of death among both rich and poor, old and young. Death played no favorites and came readily to all, regardless of gender, beliefs or nationality.
 

People lived in wooden barracks. Political prisoners, so-called "enemies of the state," and criminals were all kept together. "Enemies" were taken mostly from the ranks of prominent, intelligent and cultured people. Under the inhuman conditions of the camps, the civilised and cultural folks appeared to be less equipped for survival than the criminals.
 

To establish their iron rule, communists thought they had to rid society of all thinking and honest people. Such types are always a threat to despotic regimes. They almost succeeded: in twenty years of repression they rooted out many values, beliefs, and traditions that had been cultivated for centuries.

After they killed the brains of the nation, the Soviet Union became a kind of laughing-stock; a national bully that everyone feared because it was stupid and fat with nukes.

Everyone who tried to escape the Gulag had almost no chance of surviving. They had to walk hundreds of kms through forested wilderness... the direction hardly mattered because the people had nowhere to run. The whole country was one big prison labor camp.

Bottle of vodka - a legal drug that guards often sold, illegally, to prisoners.
 

Nothing is left inside this once-crowded barrack. There were two layers of plank beds with more than 120 convicts living in each barrack.

Most historians believe that repressions began in 1932 and peaked in 1937. Incoming traffic only slowed down in those camps with the beginning of Great Patriotic War in 1941. Why? Gulag convicts could instead choose to join army penal battalions and risk death under bullets. In 1945 WW-II ended and millions of such convicts returned to the camps. The repressions actually lasted until Stalin's death in 1953.

This is a punishment cell.

Feeding-rack.
 

People were dying from exhaustion, starvation, hard labor... Marxism-Leninism was based on the theory of evolution which teaches that through millions of years, labor had helped the ape-man to became human... Here, in camps, they proved that this process is reversible. With hard labor and little food they were able to turn human beings back into animals in just in a few months...  
 

"I did my plan and you?" asks the socialist "poster-boy." Communists have always been compulsive planners, even planning exactly how many people were to be sent to those camps. Each region had to report the count of "enemies" detained, and if the regional leaders didn't reach their quotas, then they became "enemies" themselves and joined those camps.

This is one of many bridges built by convicts. It was never used because Stalin died before completion.

They have built 900 kms out of 1263 that was needed to connect two towns Igarka and Salechard. 300.000 convicts died while building this road within years 1949-1953. Now this road, like so many others, leads to nowhere.
 

Steam locomotives of that time. Work here essentially stopped when authorities decided to start playing the music of national mourning on the radio. This music played nonstop all day, convincing people more and more that the death was their own. Soon both convicts and guards cared only to leave and return to their homes. No caring remained to fix either barbed wire or locomotives.

It is a place, where before revolution, young Joseph Stalin who was known as Koba, have spent a few years of his prison sentence. Later, it became a big transit prison, with this museum that everyone called "Stalin's Pantheon." It has been abandoned since 1953.

May these photos remind us that no State can build prosperity upon the bones of its own citizens and if all who have eyes to see are tortured and killed, than the rest will live in a kingdom of blind for a very long time.