No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag projects now lies largely forgotten. A rotting railway bridge in the Siberian outback A punishment cell for prisoners A guard’s ...

Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

Historians estimate the total number of Gulag prisoners at 20 million, of whom about 2 million did not survive their ...

And for North Koreans outside the camps, the fear of the gulag ensures their loyalty to a paranoid regime that's highly conscious of its own questionable long-term outlook. Even so, a combination ...

Many were shot, but a much greater number were sent to the labour camps, the notorious Gulag complex scattered ... the number of executions of political prisoners fell to almost zero.