Soviet Gulags
Construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (Belomorkanal). The canal was constructed between 1931 and 1933 by forced labor of Gulag inmates. According to official records and accounts in the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, between 12,000 and 240,000 laborers died during the construction of the canal The village of Poventz, USSR on May 31st, 1933 Pictured: Soviet canal directors, all are engineers and some are former prisoners. The four men on the right are (R-L): Frenkel , a former prisoner, Afanasiev, Berman, Verzhbitzky. (Photo by Laski Diffusion/Getty Images)
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