Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says officials at the Arctic prison colony where he is serving a 19-year term have isolated him in a tiny punishment cell over a minor infraction.
The difference between “prison” and “labour camp” is the same as the difference between “administration” and “regime”, “police” and “security forces”, or “insurgent” and “terrorist”
Gulag is a labor camp, we don’t know for sure this is a labor camp, it might just be solitary confident and torture.
Gulag was just the prison system of the early USSR, they weren’t labour camps anymore than USA prisons are labour camps.
A prison system of labor camps. It’s literally the definition and part of the Russian name for them.
The difference between “prison” and “labour camp” is the same as the difference between “administration” and “regime”, “police” and “security forces”, or “insurgent” and “terrorist”
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!