Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, currently serving a 19-year prison sentence, has been transferred to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle. The IK-3 penal colony, located in Kharp…
Somehow I don’t think modern Russian penal colonies are much like the gulag. Do workers make full wages for their work? Are they allowed to have their families live with them or earn 2 week trips out of the colony? Do they allow them to wear their civilian clothes? Can they send their money back to their families on the outside? Is 40% of the population turned over every year? I imagine they were referring to the mythological “gulag”, and not the real historical one we have actual physical evidence of, because that’s typically how it goes.
Somehow I don’t think modern Russian penal colonies are much like the gulag. Do workers make full wages for their work? Are they allowed to have their families live with them or earn 2 week trips out of the colony? Do they allow them to wear their civilian clothes? Can they send their money back to their families on the outside? Is 40% of the population turned over every year? I imagine they were referring to the mythological “gulag”, and not the real historical one we have actual physical evidence of, because that’s typically how it goes.