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2. DEFINITION
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The Gulag was a system of forced
labor camps established during
Joseph Stalin’s long reign as
dictator of the Soviet Union. The
word “Gulag” is an acronym for
Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or
Main Camp Administration. It
operated from the 1920s until
shortly after Stalin’s death in
1953.
3. DEFINITION
Political prisoner; a person who is
imprisoned because that person’s
actions or beliefs are contrary to
those of his or her government.
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4. CORRELATION WITH
HUMAN RIGHTS
the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights states that:
1. “No one shall be subjected to
torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or
punishment.” ( Article 5)
2. “Everyone has the right to
recognition everywhere as a
person before the law.” (Article 6)
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5. WHERE WAS IT HAPPENING?
Gulag camps existed throughout
the Soviet Union, but 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.
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7. CONSEQUENCES
• As prisoners could be required
to work up to 14 hours a day,
often in extreme weather,
many died of starvation,
disease or exhaustion—others
were simply executed.
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9. DAWN OF MODERN SLAVERY – DUSK OF HUMAN RIGHTS
“Exiled Lithuanian children are still haunted by the
shadows of the past”
• It is estimated that during the Soviet repression, every tenth deportee from
Lithuania was a child.
