More than half a century after Josef Stalin's prison camps closed, descenda...
TUGACH, Russia - More than half a century after Josef Stalin’s prison camps closed, descendants of inmates and guards of one have found peace with each other by confronting their village’s dark past.
Founded as a labor camp in 1937 during Stalin’s Great Terror, in which hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens were executed and many more locked up, the village of Tugach is home to the descendents of those forced to toil there and those who ran the facility. Tugach, a logging camp and part of the Soviet Union’s sprawling Gulag prison labor system, was closed in 1957 after Stalin’s death, but some people saw no choice but to remain as they had little money, had lost contact with family and friends, and bore the stigma of being a former inmate.
Relations were tense between the descendants of the prisoners, who saw the camp as a place of horrific political retribution, and those of the jailers who viewed it as a legitimate facility that administered genuine justice.
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