Which are forced labor camps for political prisoners. According to my research Gulags are forced labor camps that existed throughout the Soviet Union. Most of the largest camps lay in the most extreme geographical and climatic regions of the country from the Arctic north to the Siberian east and the Central Asian south. Prisoners were engaged in a variety of economic activities, but their work was typically unskilled, manual, and economically inefficient. The combination of endemic violence, extreme climate, hard labor, meager food rations and unsanitary conditions led to extremely high death rates in the camps.
And Gulag was radically reduced in size following Stalin’s death in 1953, forced labor camps and political prisoners continued to exist in the Soviet Union right up to the Gorbachev era.
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I like your post but why do you think they would put these gulags in extreme weather spost. I think it is so that they would be quiet and not riot because they would either feel extreme heat which would make them soft and lazy or cold in which they would feel Isolation. I think it was this because the government wanted them quiet and so they would put them in these spots to forget about them and get people out of the rioting ways of the Communist government. I also think it was so that the government could always feel right. This could also be because they just wanted the people to see the torture that they would go through if they did not obey the government. Overall good post jason i really liked the research topic you chose.
ReplyDeleteI thought your post really showed on how these Gulags were. But I don't get why they did this, they could have made just normal prisons, but I think they didn't want that, I think they wanted to call more attention, to make the work harder, so that people would not want to be in these prisons, because it would be heard all around town and people would be thinking about it and not want to do anything bad to get them into one of these. Overall I thought your research brought up some interesting topics to discuss about.
ReplyDeleteI like your post but do you have any clue to why the people put the camps in extreme weather. I didn't get a clue why they did it, I predict it was because of the "extreme work" they did to Stalin. many were sent to jails due to them. But I didn't get why.
ReplyDeleteThe second question, why do you think people released some prisoners who had done the wrong thing and were sent there. Also some of the people who mocked Stalin were kept there still for a longer time. So they don't have a standard way of thinking. Do you know why? I really didn't get things on track.
Jason,
ReplyDeleteYour post was very informant overall (ex: economics, lifestyle, geographic, etc.) However not as detailed in specific topics. It actually left me with some more questions than I had before reading this, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. For example, why would the larger camps be located in more extreme weather? And why were camps continued if they just lost money (you said they were economically inefficient, that's what I'm basing it on.) If camps were just basically a waste of money with little rewards, why do you think they were continued?
Jason,
ReplyDeleteI liked you post a lot, especially the informative parts. However, I still have a few questions about these Gulags. Why do you think that Stalin would want to put these Gulags in places with extreme weather? I understand that it may ne to punish the prisoners, but at the same time it reduces the labor. I think that the main reason for these camps were, as you said, for economical reasons. If Stalin were to put these camps in warmer places, don't you think they would become more profitable?