Topic: Russian Gulags created by Stalin Posted By: Renee Date: 12 Dec 2000 3:35 PM
Does any one know how many people were killed in the Russian gulags
created in the 1920's. I'm writting a term paper and it would be a huge
help. Thanks in advance!
Responses:
Subject: Gulags From:Mike Aryunov Date: 08 Aug 2002 2:51 AM
I hardly believe there were any concentration camps in Russia before
1929-1932. The civil war ended in 1924. What is your source of
information? It's hard to estimate an accurate victims number. I
believe there were thousands of them. As far as I know 'GULAG', which
is actually an abbreviation for 'Glavnoye Upravleniye LAGerey', i.e.
'Chief Camps Department', existed till 50's and was dismissed by
Khrushchev. Most of the victims were not actually 'killed' but rather
died of starvation or hard work. There were no 'Vernichtungslager',
i.e. death camps like they existed in Germany during the Nazi period.
There's also a lot of people who survived that hell were freed and
became well-known and respected. For example Georgiy Zhzhenov, a famous
actor and many many others.
