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Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps

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The Gulag system of slave labor camps is rarely brought up and never compared to the death camps run by the nazis. Yet millions lost their lives in them, and they were not just Russians either: Ukrainians, Latvians, Finns, Uzbeks, Armenians, Poles, Czechs, Germans, Spaniards and even some Americans wound up in the meat grinder that was the communist response to opposition, both real and imagined. Run by the secret police, photography was officially forbidden and yet the author of this book has managed to locate photos of select aspects of the Gulag, as well as current photos which show the results of forced labor.

This is a very haunting book but does not begin to touch the horror that was the Gulag system. The eyes of the lost look back at you, many of them guards and prison administrators before the system caught up with them as well.

An excellent book with many photos that tell the individual stories better than writings ever could. The photos bring life in the gulag into a new perspective and show a long hidden aspect of the "Soviet Paradise". This book should be exhibit "A" for treason trials of those in the U.S.A. that covered up and dismissed evidence of these atrocities, particularly those in the print media. Also, I am still waiting for Hollywood to make it's first motion picture about the Soviet Gulag and the concentration camp system...wonder why this has never been done?!?!?!?

Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps

This is a pictoral book that defies description. It shows a very sad time in our civilization, man's inhumanity to man. It is a phenomenol reminder of a time no one should forget.