麻豆约拍

Millions of people were sent to brutal labour camps in the Soviet Union during the communist rule of Joseph Stalin. Over a million prisoners died of disease, starvation, or exhaustion. Leonid Finkelstein was imprisoned in the Gulag camps for five-and-a-half years, but survived. He recounts the appalling conditions of Stalin's forced labour camps.

(Image: A watch tower and barbed wire perimeter of a Gulag. Credit: Igor Mikhalev FPG Getty Images)