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To call it a soul-crushing gulag is an insult to soul-crushing gulags.

It's like Stalin visiting one of his gulags and handing out aspirins to the skeletal, dying wretches while giving a thumbs-up to the cameras.

Of Siberia, gulags and punishmentbrTo send someone to Siberia means to punish someone by not talking to them, to cut off, to leave out in the cold.

This translation of letters that Latvian poet and novelist Arsenii Formakov wrote to his family provides a lucid firsthand account of life within the Russian gulags. Risking his safety with each letter, he supplements descriptions of his hardships with his own poetry stemming from the incarceration.

The sheer quantity of prisoners sent to northern gulags was used to compensate for the inefficiency of this model of development.

In these details, Lebedev confronts the atrocities of the gulags through memory and place.

Now many of these voices are free to speak; this article represents one line of thought emerging to contribute to the global effort to answer for our day the Gospel question, "Who do you say that I am?" In the context of Lithuanian experience, my article offers a test case for contextual Christology from an Eastern European perspective by critically reflecting on the theological implications of the Communist era, of which the system of the Soviet Gulags symbolically stands out as an unmistakable and grim token.

OVER THE last 50 years the national government has created a web of relocation camps in Metro Manila that resemble in some ways the Siberian gulags of the Soviet empire.

Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), Jan.20 ( ANI ): The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) presented its annual report 2013 on the Tibetan situation, and also released 'Gulags of Tibet', a special report on Re-education through Labour (RTL) system here on Monday.

In it, the United States' Operation Keelhaul was described as repatriating hundreds of thousands of mostly Red Army prisoners of war and refugees, who were sent to the Soviet gulags.