Word: kolyma
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...organization of 100,000 survivors of Nazi camps, to decide whether the Russians run a similar system. Said Prosecutor David Rousset, a French writer and former Nazi prisoner: "For the first time, the men who lived at Auschwitz and Buchenwald are going to hear men who lived through Kolyma and Magadan...
...less than 12,000,000 men, women & children. But he cites other estimates whose figures have soared as high as 30 million. Two of the biggest slave-labor camps: Solovetski Island in the White Sea, which has been in business since 1923, and Dalstroy's camps in the Kolyma valley in eastern Siberia...
...second Plan opened new mines and industries, with ports in the Arctic at the mouth of the Lena and Kolyma Rivers. Later defense industries and power plants were constructed as far east as Lake Baikal, new oil fields opened in the Urals. Most railroad construction under the Plans was in the East, and as population followed production, agriculture and food industries followed...