Russian state media has said that the Gulag labour camps “provided food three times a day and warm housing”The Soviet Union’s brutal Gulag labour camps provided “a start in life” as well as food and shelter for the country’s poorest citizens, according to an article published by Russian state media that has sparked anger. The article, published by the RIA Novosti news agency, admitted that there were “downsides” to life in the notoriously harsh camps, but praised them for allowing people to drag themselves out of poverty. Sponsored“For a poor peasant, the urban poor, for a street child — people who literally starved their whole lives — the labour camps provided food three times a day, warm housing and some kind of medical assistance. It was a more or less normal life in comparison,” the article said. At least two million people

Source: The Times May 25, 2021 10:52 UTC