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| | Gulag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | It was the branch of the Soviet internal police and security service that operated the penal system of forced labour camps and associated detention and transit camps and prisons. |
 | | While some of these were deserters and war criminals, there were also repatriated Russian prisoners of war and "Eastern workers", who were universally accused of treason and "cooperation with an enemy" (formally, they did work for Nazis). |
 | | Administrators and trusties (inmates assigned to perform the duties servicing the camp itself, such as cooks, bakers or stockmen, dubbed "pridurki" (translated as "morons" or "fools", but the real meaning was "the ones who fool around" (instead of doing hard labor)) skimmed off the medicines, clothing and foodstuffs. |
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