Most would agree that imprisonment would be a harsh enough treatment for most of the “crimes” that people were being arrested for in Russia, however instead they were put into Gulags. Gulags were forced labor camps, individuals would get arrested for various reasons and be put into these camps. The work was mainly unskilled, manual, and didn’t truly help the economy in any way. The Gulags had terrible living conditions, the prisoners were treated very poorly and had to live on very small portions of food. The Gulags were located in remote regions of Siberia, making the average temperatures frigid even in summer. It was Stalin's way of getting rid of people he didn’t like, didn’t trust, or didn’t want around (Shone, 2012).
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Unfortunately when the Soviets invaded Poland he was arrested and after being interrogated was sent to a Siberian forestry camp only known to him as Labour Corrective Camp No 21. Zarod explains the basic life in the Gulag from the “hard wooden shelf” that they slept on to the small fragments of soap they were given to wash up. Zarod then goes a little deeper sharing how stealing clothes and possessions would get a person beaten up but stealing bread would get them killed. Lev Razgon, a Russian Journalist, was sent to Camp No 1. He explains that the only thing that mattered was working so that you could eat. The Russians were very cruel and captured many Chinese for simply crossing the invisible border, they were sent into these camps where they worked hard until their imminent death. Despite the poor treatment of the Chinese, along with the other men, a women in the Gulag was a target for most of the evil that happened within the …show more content…
Elena Glinka was partially spared because of her young age she was chosen for local miner’s “Party boss”. Guards passing out drunk after celebrating alongside the prisoners. Starving, cold, and afraid the women didn’t have the strength to fight off anyone much less a small army of hardened prisoners. The men, the animals, couldn’t fight off their wants to even mind the women's hardships. That being the case, the men threw blankets and pillows onto the ground and lined twelve men at each woman on the ground. After all the men were finished they poured buckets of ice water on the women to revive them, and got rid of the dead