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Stalin's Slave Ships - Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the West (Hardcover, New)
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Stalin's Slave Ships - Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the West (Hardcover, New)
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Between 1932 and 1953, a fleet of ordinary cargo ships was pressed
into extraordinary service. The fleet's task was to relocate
approximately one-million forced laborers to the Soviet Gulag in
Kolyma, located along the Arctic Circle in far northeastern
Siberia. The Kolyma Gulag, the most infamous in the Soviet Union,
was accessible only by sea, and the fleet became the lifeblood of
the entire operation. As one of the largest seaborne movements of
people in history, this transport took a devastating toll on human
lives. Bollinger presents the often-horrific stories of the Gulag
fleet and its passengers and reveals the unwitting role of the
United States government in the operation. U.S. shipyards built
most of the Gulag fleet, and the U.S. government sold many of the
ships used in the transport directly to an agent of the Soviet
Union. The United States also overhauled and repaired many ships in
the Gulag fleet free of charge at the midpoint of their Gulag
careers. In some cases, free ships provided to the Soviet Union
under the Lend Lease military assistance program were diverted into
Gulag transport duties. How much did Washington know about the
deadly duty of these ships? How many prisoners made the voyage? How
many never made it out alive? Bollinger details this tragic tale
using firsthand testimony from those involved in the operation and
materials from both American and Russian archives.
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