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"GULAG" - SLAVERY, INC.
THE FIRST COMPREMENSIVE, SELF-AUTHENTICATED TOCU-MAP OF FORCED LABOR CAMPS IN SOVIET RUSSIA
Prepared by The Editors of PLAIN TALK
CAMPS OF
STOMPLET
SOLATION
.
NORYLSK
CAME
ADMIN
COMBLETE
ISOLATION
ADMIN
NARYM
TOBOLSK
ADMIN
ADMIN
AOMIN
KRASNO (ARSKI SIBIRSKI
ADMIN
Krass
on
ADMIN
SIBIRSKI
ADMIN.
KARAGANDA
Karagonde
ADMIN
'GULAG" Children
SIGMAN
ULAG-The Soviet Slave Labor an abbreviation of Glavnoye Upravienye
PENAL LABOR COLONIES,
BY ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS
of
Lagenai, or Office of Panal Labor Camps, o department of the MVD, the Ministry
N THE BASIS OF THE MASS of documentary evidence gathered from the amnes-
the Interior (formerly known as the NKVD-Russion equivalent of the Gestapo,
The following list details the types of industries operated by GULAG-the Penal
documentary evidence, the forty-odd colonies shown here do not `exhaust all the
tied deportees, it has been established that the average mortality rate in GULAG
There one orver 14,000,000 forced laborers in GULAG, scattered through scores of
Labor Trust of the Soviet Government. Although complete on the basis of available
geographic divisions of GULAG known exist in the Soviet Union today.
exceeds
12%
a
year.
In
other
words,
every
eight
years
ifs
total
population
perishes.
penal colonies each a Devill's bland at its worst, living in unspeokable wretchedness. on
. metal mines: construction of railwoys, twanels
roilways:
petroleum
cement
on
pig iron works: cool and asphalt
It is, of course, being constantly replenished so that Slavery, Inc. is never short of man-
the adge of death by sfarvation and disease, and slaving twelve hours a day under arbi-
canals, works and airfields: brickworks: quarries, timber
mines: heavy water (A-bomb) project: road building timber
Sibirshi (including Tomasin), Krosnoyarski, Uj-Sibir-
farming brickworks and quarris construction of airfields.
light metal mines: construction of factories and
power-Russia's cheapest commodify.
camps and fisheries. Severe-Nickel, south aluminum,
eickel. copper, lead Belomor-Baltiski, construction
industries and tonneries distilleries: quarries and
GULAG's humon reservoir is a cross-section of Soviet society. It ranges from recal-
The axishence of this state monopoly in expendable human flesh has been known for
and of the White Baltic Camal.
. Ussolski, Berymyonali-Samara Osobstroy, Temnikovski, Yuj-Kovkar
brickworks: and timber: railway and road construction,
citrant peasants and workers to Red Army generals in disgrace, and includes the intellec
-War industries: construction of underground airfields and for
. Yokutsk, Mogadan-Kolyma), Chukotski, Kamchat-
tual
the
industrial
bureaucracy.
Grimly
ironic
the
fact
that
GULAG
has
many Au for years back and os 1930, recognized the U.S. da @ Treasury chief source clamped of revenue for the Communish regime.
. Salov b. Onega, Kargepol, Sev-Dvino, Kuloyski, Vytegra, Ust Yym,
dyke
and
road
building:
labor
classes
and
women's
comps:
manufac
paper industry: railwoy and construction
ture of wood prodects timber and forming quorries and brick
-Gold and lead mines: rood and oirfield construction:
been the final home for thousands of Communist expatriates who took refuge in the land
products of labor. But for the on fiest embargo time, on incontrovertible Soviet pulpwood proof and of
quarries and brickworks: farming: settlement bwilding construction
works: railway construction,
timber industry; quorries: fisheries and conneries.
of their dreams only to end up in slave labor columns.
of road moking.
the GULAS and its vast eamifications has been brought out of Russia.
. Narthern Reilway Campe Construction and mainfenance of roil
. Ivdel, Sverdlovsk and Norther Urals, Norym, Tobolsk, Norylsk,
. -Vostochni, Nijni-Amur, Sakhalia--Harbor works:
roilwoy and rood construction; fortifications and airfields: military
Since the end of the war, some 2,000,000 Japanese war prisoners, about 1,000,000
During the period at the Pact, about 1,600,000 Polas---- -men women
rood from the Diva River to the Aretic.
Comps of Complete Isolation coal and precious metal mines:
installations.
German war prisoners, and not less than 2,000,000 repatriated Russian war prisoners,
airplone foctories: airfield castruction: metallurgical industry
and - Siberio, departed Om August by the 12. Soviet 2941 as authorities o result to of GULAG the Polish-Soviet colonies in Agreement, the Far North and
. Volgashroy, Uthte, Pachore, Yyatha-Construction
railway and road construction: Ember and forming quarries and
. Novayo Zemlya-Coal mines and fisheries in the most isolated
frected as deserters with whom they are lumped, have been added to GULAG's rolls.
and waintenance of the Volga-Baltic Camal: power stations and
brickworks.
area in Soviel Russia, on island in the Arctic Circle.
Most of the Japanese prisoners are engaged in a great project building secretly a rail-
- to the Polish infernees in Russia. 114,000 of these released Poles an
SOURCES
road through northeastern Siberia, not indicated in the Docu-Map.
that forming the backbone al the Polish Army which fough+ glariously
|EARLY 14,000 affidavits, plus other documentary evidence and crude maps made by
The boundaries of the slave labor regions have been drawn here with a view to un-
the territory adjoining northern Finland. If reads in translation: "U.S.S.R.-People's Com-
ex-inmates of Soviet prisons and concentration camps, served as the basis of this
derstatement. All the territory controlled by GULAG, if consolidated would make a sub-
missariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD)Administration of Railroad Construction and Sorok-
Legand
Docu-Map. All of these come from the liberated inmates, many of whom supplementes
ski Correctional Labor Camp- -December 15, 194 -number 4/58024/16-City of Belo-
merged empire exceeding in area the boundaries of Western Europe.
The distract circles represent GULAG forced labor colonies. eoch a sproviling
their affidavits with detailed statements of their experiences as Soviet captives. Photo-
morsk. The seals and signatures of the commanders, Kliuchkov and Georgeyev, are ap-
"GULAG" Children
some ministration comprient . of sencentration camps under a separate
static reproductions of the official "passports furnished to the amnestied men and women
pended.
ad
The photographs in the insert, taken in Teheran early in 1942. show typical
by the various GULAG administrations, bearing the seals and signatures of camp com-
examples of thousands of children upon their release from Soviet concentration camps,
the linged develope individual concentration comps operaried by municipal
manders, have been reproduced hare to furnish graphic proof of the number and magni-
The numbers on these "passports" stand for all the registered communications and
thes under the countries et lead NIVVO authorities
tude
of
Left to right: Barbara Sliwinsko, aged 2: Jan Gorski 14: Monek Finkelstein 12.
Slavery,
Inc.,
os
operated
by
the
Soviet
Government.
A
typical
"passport"
will
papers issued from each administrative center. The highest of these exceed the 6,000,000
be found over the upper lefthand corner of the map, of the Sorokski Administration, in
figure, and enable us to gouge the turnover of human cargo in the different penal colonies.
Copyright 1947, PLAIN TALK. Inc. 240 Madison Are. Neu York 16. N.Y
A
Reward of $1,000 Will Be Paid by PLAIN TALK for Evidence Disjroving the Authenticity of the Soviet Documents Here Reproduced.