Many of you are unfamiliar with the history of the former Soviet Union and forced labor camps. These labor camps came to be known as gulags as the result of political repression. The name Gulag was the government agency that administered these forced labor camps during the Stalin era. Many of those sentenced to these camps were convicted by NKVD troika.
According to www.wikipedia.org: NKVD troika or Special troika were institutional commissions of three persons who issued sentences to people without trial[citation needed]. These commissions were employed as an instrument of extrajudicial punishment introduced to supplement the Soviet legal system with a means for quick execution or imprisonment.[1] It began as an institution of the Cheka, then later became prominent again in the NKVD, when it was used during the Great Purge.
Many of those imprisoned included petty thieves along with political and religious dissenters.
The first of these labor camps was established during the Stalin era, right after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918.
Suffice it to say that many thousands if not millions perished under Stalin's brutal hand.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, coined the phrase "gulag" and wrote a book in 1973 that I urge you to read, entitled, "The Gulag Archipelago". These gulags were likened to death camps as those imprisoned were worked up until their deaths.
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could what happened there, happen here?
According to www.wikipedia.org: NKVD troika or Special troika were institutional commissions of three persons who issued sentences to people without trial[citation needed]. These commissions were employed as an instrument of extrajudicial punishment introduced to supplement the Soviet legal system with a means for quick execution or imprisonment.[1] It began as an institution of the Cheka, then later became prominent again in the NKVD, when it was used during the Great Purge.
Many of those imprisoned included petty thieves along with political and religious dissenters.
The first of these labor camps was established during the Stalin era, right after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918.
Suffice it to say that many thousands if not millions perished under Stalin's brutal hand.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, coined the phrase "gulag" and wrote a book in 1973 that I urge you to read, entitled, "The Gulag Archipelago". These gulags were likened to death camps as those imprisoned were worked up until their deaths.
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could what happened there, happen here?
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