While we know a lot about the Nazi concentration camps, it’s not so with the Soviet Gulag labor camps, such as Pechora, Kolyma, Norilsk or Yermakovo. We’re now about to be able to experience much more about them. The following teaser is from an article posted November 29, 2015 at the ceskenoviny.cz website.
Prague – The Gulag Online Museum presenting a 3D reconstruction and virtual tour of former Soviet labour camp system will be launched by the Czech association Archipelago in March or April 2016, its head Stepan Cernousek has told CTK.
“As it is not possible to remember the conditions of the former Gulag camps in Russia, we decided to create this possibility on the Internet at least,” Cernousek said…
According to estimates, 15 to 18 million people became Gulag prisoners and at least 1.5 million of them did not survive their stay in the camps…
Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the heads-up.
