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Is this a good speech on the gulags in siberia during ww2? |
Gulag Speech Introduction 路before the war, idea of camps being used for forced labor not a very popular topic 路but 2 years before war started, 1937, # of people in camps was at 1.2 million 路once war started, umber of people in camps went up and down 路after WWII ended, number of people in camps continued to rise until 1950, reached 2.5 million 路then on, numbers declined 路reason for all the high and lows because of the changing death rate and influx of people during the years 路1930 - 1953, over eighteen million people went through the camps 路these camps where millions went and millions died, called gulags What is it? 路vast network of labor and prison camps in Siberia 路ranging from islands of white sea to shores of black sea, from the arctic circle to plains of central Asia 路acronym for"Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei", which means main administration camps 路Stalin believed these camps were critical to the soviet unions economic growth 路the camps had their own laws, their own customs, their own mortality, even their own slang 路were given shorter sentences and a pay raise in turn for working more 路they started disappearing after Stalin鈥檚 death in 1953 路after these camps were no more, survivors were able to recognize each other on the street because of looks in their eyes 路1970's & 1980's, some of the camps were turned into prisons for anti-soviet nationalists and criminals 路1987, Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the soviet union, began dissolving very last camps altogether how/why used? 路When started: 路used to lock up unreliable elements 路rehabilitate the 1st enemies of the people 路1929, Stalin used forced labor to speed up soviet union鈥檚 industrialization 路how used: 路excavate natural resources from soviet unions barely habitable far north 路saw logs, haul timber, dig canals, mine coal 路Why used: 路easy way to get work done that normally would have taken forever 路needed somewhere to send criminals to learn a lesson 路they were supposed to be for forced labor but ended up as death camps because people were often worked to death conditions 路most times faced: 路meager food rations 路inadequate clothing 路overcrowdedness 路poorly insulated clothing 路poor hygiene 路poor healthcare 路after Germany attacked Russia in 1941, conditions worsened dramatically 路quotas for workers increased 路rations were made even less 路they barely had any medical supplies 路Ultimately led to an increase in deaths Effect on Russian society 路Spanned nearly 4 decades of Russian history 路Never again tried to make them a central part of society 路Survivors were scarred for life 路Then known as a murderous nation 路Created a nation of persecution and despotism(Despotism is a form of government by a single authority, either an individual or tightly knit group, which rules with absolute political power) 路Forced a migration of artists and people of culture to Siberia creating a renaissance 路Prisoners lost their jobs and eventually lost all their work skills 路Most often the prisoners were separated from their families and never saw them again unless their family was altogether in one of the camps Conclusion 路In end, at least 1.6 million killed 路Camps were very harsh and people were lucky to get out 路1990 camps still being dissolved 路very important 路help understand Russian history and a major part of ww2 路almost as harsh as the camps Hitler made for Jews Very good. You might wish to note, that there were labor camps in Tsarist times. The communists, like so much in Russia, simply took them over. All in all, an outstanding overview of the Gulag system. Not bad ... you might also mention that the fear of going to a gulag was a method of discouraging dissidents and challenges to the status quo. A blurb or two about the Russian dissident writer, Alexander Solzenitzen, would by appropriate. He wrote painfully detailed books about the misery in and injustice of the gulag system. |
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