Russia: The New Gulags
Duration: 10'20"
Producer: Sue Lloyd-Roberts
Isolated and forgotten, 80,000 people have been starving to death in the Siberian wastelands. In the former Gulag settlements Stalin's labour camps are long gone - but history seems to be repeating itself. Since the Soviet Union collapsed the people the government enticed out to work in these freezing places have been cast off without pay and food supplies. With no money to get back to European Russia, they are running out of hope. Sue Lloyd-Roberts meets a new generation of economic prisoners - who must be wondering what they did wrong.
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