... , inhumane conditions at the labour camps. Whatever the project may be, building dams or statues, the task was to be completed in set amount of time, at any cost, even human life. A normal working day was 8-10 hours, with 4-5 hour shifts. To ensure that inevitable absenteeism didn't occur, labour books reflected how hard a worker had worked day to day and their frequency of attendance ... . Peasants working on the collectivized farms were denied the right to leave the collectives which forced them to apply themselves more heavily to their work ... sacrifice for advancement. Stalin or "Un...

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... severity of their hardships can be observed in Solzhenitsyn's novel: "The narrator describes conditions in the camp detail by detail: the early start of the work day in the complete darkness and frost of a Siberian winter night, the cold of the prisoners' barracks, their starvation diet, and the brutality of the authorities."[13] The depth of degradation of the prisoners in the camp is startling. When Ivan Denisovich sees " ...a young fellow who ... Vietnam, a miscalculation which turned into a disaster and shocked national self-confidence."[18] In January Sakharov protested against the...

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