Comments on: Operational Order No. 00447

By: Russie - Vidéo Décapitation Néo-nazi « Robert Lindsay

Russie - Vidéo Décapitation Néo-nazi « Robert Lindsay — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:11:21 +0000

[...] impitoyables épurations staliniennes, à la fin des années 30, étaient une volonté évidente d’éliminer des ennemis [...]

By: Video Shock: I Neo Nazisti Russi Decapitano Un Prigioniero Caucasico « Robert Lindsay

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:55:31 +0000

[...] spietate purghe staliniane, alla fine degli anno 30, oltre ad essere un evidente eliminazione dei ‘nemici’ [...]

By: Russian Neo-Nazi Beheading Video « Robert Lindsay

Russian Neo-Nazi Beheading Video « Robert Lindsay — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:32:55 +0000

[...] mad purges of the late 1930’s were to some degree wild attempts to stave off the emerging Nazi threat by [...]

By: Neo-Naziste Decapitare Video « Robert Lindsay

Neo-Naziste Decapitare Video « Robert Lindsay — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:51:03 +0000

[...] Inlaturarile nebune ale lui Stalin din anii 1930 erau la un anumit grad incercari salbatice de a intarzia amenintarea nazista prin inlaturarea su chiar executarea lui Trotskyites and Bukharinites care nu numai simpatizau cu nazistii dar si sustineau o invaziei a URSS. [...]

By: potyomkina

potyomkina — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:50:00 +0000

What cosmic irony that at the same time as this anniversary in the USA they vote to dismantle the FISA court and unleash the possibility for mass warrant-less surveillance? Ironiya sudbi ili tragediya.

By: Chrisius Maximus

Chrisius Maximus — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:32:00 +0000

Hey, was there a prison system outside the Gulag camps, or did everybody convicted of anything get sent to the camps? I’ve wondered about that.

By: Chrisius Maximus

Chrisius Maximus — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:30:00 +0000

I need a secret police, so I can round you guys up and exile you to my office to do my work for me.

By: W. Shedd

W. Shedd — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:07:00 +0000

My understanding always was that "Gulags" were created about 1929 and its use for any prison or labor camp before that time was a somewhat retroactive naming convention.

It is a fairly specific term (Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний) that gets thrown around and overused. It isn't as though the Soviet Union invented the concept of putting people (criminals or others) in jails and making them work either. That sort of thing goes rather deep in human history.

Where the Soviets might have raised the bar is its application towards people they just didn't like.

By: Sean Guillory

Sean Guillory — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:36:00 +0000

Depends what you mean and when you date the beginning of the Gulag. The first Soviet camps like the infamous one at Solovki monastery were created to house prisoners from the Civil War. In the early 1920s Solovki had mostly average criminals, but also politicals--anarchists and socialists. They latter were given special rights until a massacre in 1924. All the politicals were subsequently transfered out to other camps.

Later camps were chiefly there to house exiles. The ones that were labor camps were for mostly for mining, timber, extraction.

If anything Gulag related, the deportation of kulaks and other ethnic groups might have been for the development of inhospitable places.

But in the 1930s, there were campaigns for this too. A colleague of mine wrote her dissertation on the Khetagorivite movement of the late 1930s which urged women to move to the Far East. Khrushchev's Virgin Lands campaign too.

I think it would be an interesting study if someone compared the Tsarist exile system with the Soviet.

By: Chrisius Maximus

Chrisius Maximus — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:51:00 +0000

Wasn’t one of the reasons for the Gulag precisely to obtain labor to develop inhospital areas?