A reconstruction of the interior of an accommodation hut in a Soviet gulag labour camp in Latvia. Photograph by Marcin Szala, 2011.
Stalin's gulag system, which was spread across the USSR from 1930 to 1960, detained millions of civilians regarded as 'enemies of the state.'
Museum of the Occupation of Latvia.
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