Construction in post-war Siberia: Participation of German and Japan prisoners of War

摘要

The most important attribute of the existence of the totalitarian regime in the USSR was the repressive policy that influenced almost all spheres of life of Soviet society.The GULAG and GUPVI CAMPS,which spread throughout the country and absorbed millions of innocent human victims,became an integral part of the Soviet repressions.Siberia,which became a place of hard labor and exile in tsarist times,became in Soviet times a huge concentration camp for both Soviet citizens and foreigners.Why Siberia? There are several explanations for this: the extremely harsh climate of the region,which together with hard work had tore-educatethe lost;huge deserted spaces that had to be mastered;large construction sites,for example,BAM,which is very profitable to use slave,almost free labor of prisoners or prisoners of war.