By- Vipulkumar Mesariya

Russian: Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravityelno-trudovykh Lagerey

GULag was the Soviet Union Government agency that administered the main Soviet forced Labour Camp During the Stalin era (1930 to 1950)

GULAG……?

“ WE ARE FIFTY OR ONE HUNDRED YEARS BEHIND THE ADVANCE COUNTRIES. WE MUST MAKE GOOD THIS DISTANCE IN TEN YEARS ” - Stalin

The 5-Year Plan Need for Labor

Crimes Punishable……. Have you ever been late to work?

Sent to the Gulag for 3 years. Have you ever told a joke about a government official?

Sent to the Gulag for up to 25 years If your family was starving, would you take a few potatoes

left in a field after harvest?Sent to the Gulag for up to 10 years

The system of Soviet repression, Arrest Interrogation Incarceration Transportation Forced labour Break-up of the family Exile Death

GULAG – weapon of ongoing political control over one country, “Trials” – 5 minutes – sentences 8-10 years

Article 58 – (1928) – anti-Soviet activity 25% “political prisoners”

Gulags in the USSR in the 1930s

LIFE IN THE CAMPS

Food…

Food was limited, of poor quality and often rottenNo work = no food = starvation = death

Work……

Gulag Worker Filing Out for Work

Gulag Worker Railway line construction Work

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GULAG CAMPS ?

Kolyma

Vladivostok

Kiev

TashkentUlan Bator

Solovetsky

Perm326

White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal

Kolyma - “means death” Harshest of all the camps -NE Siberia

Mining at Kolyma

Kolyma - “means death” Harshest of all the camps

Major building program of the Gulags

• The White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal built between 1931 and 1933• First major construction of the Gulag system• 100 000 prisoners constructed a 141 mile canal with hand tools in 20

months, it was a failure in that it was too narrow and too shallow to carry the required vessels.

Human Cost of the Gulag System

Between 1936 and 1950 around 12 million prisoner died in the Gulag system

 Books On GULAG….

Gulag is a 1985 drama film  by Roger Young

Gulag Memorial in Moscow

STALIN = 20+ Million Deaths

(Starvation, Forced Labor Camps, Purges)

Impact of Stalinism Industrialisation and modernisation through forced labour…..

– Dnieper Dam– Volga-Baltic Waterway– White Sea Canal– Economic, social, and political revolution– Rapid Industrialization– Iron, Steel, machines, electric, transportation– Economic Growth – Heavy Industry– 111% coal, 200% iron, 335% electric production– Increased output – Higher wages, Better housing– 2nd only to the U.S– Steel production 4 million to 18 million tons– Coal output 36 to 128 million tons– Production of capital goods and armaments – Quadrupled production of heavy machinery – Doubled oil production– Weapons increase tenfold or more– Human cost?

Quotes of Stalin

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

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