Google Maps users have come across “the most depressing place of all time”. It is a former labor camp in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Images with coordinates 69 ° 24’19 ° N 87 ° 38’57 ° E capture half-dilapidated buildings in piles of gray rubble. It’s really a Norillag labor camp. Even see the mining equipment, “said one user. Another person, who obviously knows the history of the site, commented on a photo of a nearby street east of the Gulag, saying that “it’s one of the most depressing places she’s ever seen”.
Norillag Camp, located near the Siberian city of Norilsk, was one of many Russian gulags. The prisoners were first forced to build the entire complex and then dig copper and nickel. Later, they did other work to support the economy. They caught fish or reconstructed Stalin’s house. The camp operated from June 25, 1935 to August 22, 1956, and it is estimated that more than 400,000 prisoners worked in its history, including 300,000 political prisoners. After its inception, there were only 1,200 prisoners, but in the early 1950s, thanks to Stalin’s efforts to eliminate political opponents, their numbers increased. Forced labor camps were set up at the behest of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, culminating in Joseph Stalin’s takeover, he writes. The Sun.
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The Gulag system (Glavnoje Upravlenije Lagerej) is estimated to have brought together more than 30,000 camps. Thousands of people died in inhumane conditions behind the gates of these facilities. After Stalin’s death in 1953, a prisoner uprising took place that lasted 69 days and claimed thousands of lives.