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Russia, Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, forced labor camp "Coal Stream".
Russia, Murmansk Oblast, Kola forced labor camp, Building No. 509.
Russia, the Republic of Sakha, concentration camp «Alaskite» for tungsten mining.
Russia, the Republic of Sakha, Dzhugdzhur forced labor camp.
Russia, the Republic of Sakha, Indigirskiy forced labor camp.
Russia, Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, forced labor camp "Coal Stream".
Russia, Murmansk Oblast, Kola forced labor camp, Building No. 509.
Russia, the Republic of Sakha, concentration camp «Alaskite» for tungsten mining.
Russia, the Republic of Sakha, Dzhugdzhur forced labor camp.
Russia, the Republic of Sakha, Indigirskiy forced labor camp.
Russia, Magadan Oblast, Dneprovsky forced labor camp.
Russia, Koryak Okrug, Dalniy forced labor camp.
Russia, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, forced labor camp Harbei Mine.
Russia, Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Norilsk forced labor camp.
Russia, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Severny forced labor camp.
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Russia, Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, forced labor camp "Coal Stream".
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Russia, Murmansk Oblast, Kola forced labor camp, Building No. 509.
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Russia, the Republic of Sakha, concentration camp «Alaskite» for tungsten mining.
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Russia, the Republic of Sakha, Dzhugdzhur forced labor camp.
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Russia, the Republic of Sakha, Indigirskiy forced labor camp.
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Russia, Magadan Oblast, Dneprovsky forced labor camp.
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Russia, Koryak Okrug, Dalniy forced labor camp.
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Russia, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, forced labor camp Harbei Mine.
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Russia, Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Norilsk forced labor camp.
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Russia, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Severny forced labor camp.
MANNEQUINS
Danila Tkachenko
The project addresses the problems of recollection and remembrance of political terror in the former Soviet Union.
I would try to find the sites of former concentration camps of the GULAG system and reach them in order to establish installations there consisting of mannequins covered with black cloth. As a rule, these places are hard-to-reach and are not marked on maps.
The GULAG consisted of a vast system of concentration and forced labour camps in Soviet Russia where people would be subjected to hard labour, violence and genocide. Millions of innocent people were the victims of the GULAG, including the citizens of the USSR, and also other countries: Czechs, Hungarians, French, Americans, etc.
The GULAG phenomenon is attributable to the fact that this is the largest genocide in the world perpetrated by a country with its own people. While the Nazi holocaust destroyed the perceived “Other”, the Soviet terror was similar to an act of mass suicide.
The suicidal nature of the Soviet repressions hampers the functioning of the mechanisms that tend to be used to help people survive a disaster: learn what happened; find and punish the guilty; establish memorials at the sites of the crimes. The Russian state, the immediate successor of the Soviet regime, does not want to acknowledge its guilt and tries to conceal the vestiges of the crime.
Other than its scale, only one thing is known about this Soviet catastrophe - the extent of the uncertainty. The precise number of GULAG victims cannot be established: existing estimates range from 5 million to 30 million. Most of the information remains classified by the state, there is no complete list of the victims and executioners, and there are not enough museums and memorials which could frame an understanding of these events for future generations.
Russia is a country where millions remain unburied. This incompleteness is one of the reasons why the recent past continues to haunt Russian politics and cultures, divide society and place restrictions on political choice. The past returns in the form of fear of what the future holds and an apprehensiveness that history might repeat itself, in the process laying waste to the present.
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