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The '''Main Administration of Camps''',<ref group="lower-alpha">Russian: Главное | The '''Main Administration of Camps''',<ref group="lower-alpha">Russian: Главное управление лагерей</ref> abbreviated as '''GULag''', was a system of rehabilitative labor camps in the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]]. Most of the prisoners were convicted of regular crimes and were not [[Counterrevolution|counterrevolutionaries]]. At the peak of the GULag system, 2.4% of the adult Soviet population was incarcerated, whereas 2.8% of the [[United States of America|United States]] population is currently incarcerated.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Saed Teymuri|newspaper=The Stalinist Katyusha|title=The Truth about the Soviet Gulag - Surprisingly Revealed by the CIA|date=2018-10-31|url=https://stalinistkatyusha.wixsite.com/stalinist-katyusha/single-post/2018/10/04/The-Truth-about-the-Soviet-Gulag---Surprisingly-Revealed-by-the-CIA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401100827/https://stalinistkatyusha.wixsite.com/stalinist-katyusha/single-post/2018/10/04/The-Truth-about-the-Soviet-Gulag---Surprisingly-Revealed-by-the-CIA|archive-date=2019-04-01|retrieved=2022-09-11}}</ref> | ||
== Working conditions == | == Working conditions == | ||
Inmates worked 10-hour days until 1954, when the work day was reduced to 8 hours. Prisoners who worked very productively could have their sentences reduced by up to half and were given extra food or money.<ref name=":0" /> | Inmates worked 10-hour days until 1954, when the work day was reduced to 8 hours. Prisoners who worked very productively could have their sentences reduced by up to half and were given extra food or money.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
== Notes == | |||
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== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 12:19, 11 September 2022
The Main Administration of Camps,[a] abbreviated as GULag, was a system of rehabilitative labor camps in the Soviet Union. Most of the prisoners were convicted of regular crimes and were not counterrevolutionaries. At the peak of the GULag system, 2.4% of the adult Soviet population was incarcerated, whereas 2.8% of the United States population is currently incarcerated.[1]
Working conditions
Inmates worked 10-hour days until 1954, when the work day was reduced to 8 hours. Prisoners who worked very productively could have their sentences reduced by up to half and were given extra food or money.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Russian: Главное управление лагерей
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Saed Teymuri (2018-10-31). "The Truth about the Soviet Gulag - Surprisingly Revealed by the CIA" The Stalinist Katyusha. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2022-09-11.