The Gulag History State Museum: Survivors

Gulag (acronym of Main Administration of Camps) is a system of camps in which convicts were serving sentences for domestic and criminal offences and also for political reasons in USSR. This horrible mass repressions started in USSR in the 1930s. It sounds horrifying, because over the 27 years of the Gulag's existence twenty million people have passed through the camps and every tenth never came back from Gulag. Agency: BBDO, Moscow
But only half of young Russians know about mass repressions in the USSR (as it puts Russian Public Opinion Research Center, September 2018). Every fourth hears about the Gulag for the first time. To remind about this terrible time The Gulag History State Museum has collected former prisoners’ stories and told them in the language of graphic novels. The main characters are people whose lifestory was showed in the permanent exhibition at The Gulag History State Museum. All graphic novels are based on the stories of the Gulag’s former prisoners.