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A short visit to the gulag

 
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Photographer and adventurer Elena Filatova explores places that are out of bounds, in a nation full of secrets. I featured her impressions of Chernobyl here a couple of weeks ago.

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This time the images are from a tour she made of one of Stalin’s labour camps in the gulag. They are so remote they can be reached only by helicopter, and for prisoners there was no hope of escape.

The gulag system flourished from the 30s to 1953, when Stalin died. Gulag was an acronym for The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies — click the drawing below for more on this charming agency and its workings.

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