History of Gulags

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On the 16th of February, 2024, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service announced that opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died. He had been imprisoned in the far-flung "Polar Wolf" penal colony, built in the city of Kharp on the ruins of a Stalin-era labour camp.

Dan is joined by Alexander Watson, Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. He lays out the history of exile and the treatment of political prisoners in the Soviet Union and details the vast Gulag system to which tens of millions of Soviets were sent.

Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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1:04.8	On the 16th of February 2024 the Russian government
1:09.2	announced that Alexei Navalny had died in prison in Western Siberia.
1:16.8	The official statement said that all necessary resuscitation measures were carried out, but
1:22.0	did not yield positive results.
1:25.0	Alexei Navali died in F KU IK3, a, part of the federal penitentiary service of Russia.
1:37.6	It's known as Polar Wolf, a mens maximum security penal colony.
1:44.0	It's in the town of Karp.
1:46.0	Karp was built by prisoners under Joseph Stalin.
1:51.0	Polar wolf, the penal colony, was founded on the site of a Stalinist concentration camp.
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