The Gulag Gang Wars

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
COMMENTS - "few gulag funfacts!
1. gulags were constrycted by prisoners themselves. usually a hay wagon carried them to some empty plot of land where they were given axes and told to construct shelter. The first few batches of prisoners were thus basically just thrown away to build a few wooden sheds before they died
2. russians did not want to go work in the guleg, thus most guards were actually former prisoners
3. prisoners were actually allowed to read books and films to indoctrinate them into communism
4. there was ni grass near a gulag because inmates would pluck all dresh grass and roots and eat it
5. The russian populace would on mass hang around train stations where the gulag trains rode through. Trading food and warm clothes for whatever jewelry the inmates had. My great great grandma echanged her wedding ring for half a loaf of bread
6. The best job you could get was a 'delivery person' my grat grandma became one. She rode the horse between gulags delivering messages and packages thus bartered locally. She also would barter on her way with local tribes, and even steal dogfood she delivered so she could eat some meat
7. Gulags had no fences or anything because if you escaped you just died in the cold anyway"