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GULAG: Soviet Prison Camps and their Legacy

Concept Paper

Thesis

The GULAG system was not an effective method of correction. The GULAG (acronym

for Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh LAGerei) was, as stated in the article, used as a

weapon of ongoing political control over one country. The GULAG system was told to be an

inhumane detention for prisoners who were illtreated and constantly tortured. The GULAG

system is not positive in a way that the conditions in modernday !ussian prisons resemble the

old prison camps where prisoners are un"ustly treated and the facilities are left unmaintained. The

GULAG system only encouraged the practice of torture and indifference among the prisoners,

instead of reformation which should be the honest purpose of penal systems.

 Anti – thesis

The GULAG system is a positive disciplinary action. #osef $talin was a twisted man who

intended to lead the country to greater good. %ot only did the GULAG system serve as a

corrective detention for the criminals, it also provided labor and public service which helped in

cultivating the country. The GULAG system also empowered the most viewed system of change

which was the e&uality of women. The GULAG system's most important impact was the rise of 

the economy of !ussia. $talin influenced the economy by advancing the provinces to

industrialied cities. The GULAG system set a stage for the region to view nationalism and

 patriotism.

Synthesis

The GULAG system was a widespread prison camp set all over !ussia. t is similar to

*itler's %ai prison camps, but however, less discussed, it e+isted in matters of political control

and due to $talin's vision.

The GULAG system was a rundown e+perimental place for political power, and people

were treated less than guinea pigs in actual e+periments. espite its purpose to provide

disciplinary control over the wrong doers, it showed no success. The prison camps were left in

filth and stin- a place generally people would not even last day in. The GULAG system

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contained a combination of actual law offenders and innocent citiens. The possibility of being

tortured or -illed by your fellow inmates was terrifying in its own. The GULAG system proved

to be more of a piggery than a detainment camp for reformation.

The GULAG system provided labor and epiphany for people to treasure their country

however it does not "ustify the sadistic method in -eeping its prisoners. The wrong does not

substantiate the deaths of many innocent people for a failed vision. The lives of those ac&uitted

 persons could have raised the economy without -illing millions. The GULAG system only

invigorated the modern age to do as what their ancestors has done, and no act can defend the

reinforcement of continuation of a negative event in history.

The GULAG system fails as a disciplinary method of detainment. mprisonment aims to

 provide rehabilitation to those who have committed wrong. %orway, for e+ample, provides

rooms similar to the ordinary world because they consider the fact that the inmates would

eventually return to society. The result of such practice was proven to help the wrong doers see- 

well. The GULAG system fails to see the importance of humans and nurture their welfare.

/eople are the ones who uphold the country and the future generations. They must be treated

well and with conviction, otherwise, the very thing $talin or other visionaries see- to change for 

the better might seie to e+ist.