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Old 5th July 2007, 15:06
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What exactly was the Gulag?

Where they the Soviet detention centers, or another form of KGB secret police?
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Old 31st January 2008, 21:15
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The gulags were a form of "detention centers," considered more like labor camps, prison, and ultimately "death camps." These are comparable to the concentration camps created by the Nazis. They were usually in the upper region(s) of Siberia.

The secret police were first called the NKVD, then later, after Stalin's death the name changed to KGB. The "secret police" were usually responsible for making the arrests & sending violators to the gulags. The secret police received most of their information from common citizens, or perhaps coherced from common citizens spying on each other.

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Gulag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 10th February 2008, 00:04
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Am I mistaken, or is that encyclopedia for computer jargon?
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click the link and find out. Wikipedia is the best online encyclopedia there is.
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Gulag

It was something the American Left needs establish so members of the Republican Party and their agents of evil heard in the talk radio medium won't be tempted to start World War III.

Lock up John Mc Cain, Mike Hucklebee, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck , Ann Coulter and Michael Savage and throw away the key. We want PEACE.
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Old 22nd February 2008, 18:35
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Were the "gulags" completely ended? If so, when and how? What happened to the people who survived?
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