Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a former inmate of Stalin's gulag system, a network of forced labour camps across the USSR in operation from 1930 to 1960. Photograph taken in Germany in 1974.
The camps detained millions of civilians regarded as 'enemies of the state.' Solzhenitsyn's most famous work is The Gulag Archipelago.
Dutch National Archives.
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