The use of prisoners as workers in the Russian economy was “a hit at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum,” Kirill Martynov says; and this possibility prompted discussions among business leaders as to which “models of work with prisoners at construction sites” would be the most effective.
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Paul Goble: ‘GULAG as a Business Plan’ a hit in Russia
Millions of Soviet citizens were executed by secret police or died in forced agricultural collectivisation and Gulag labour camps during Stalin's rule from the 1920s until his death in 1953.
