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By nkvd order 00943 14 august 1939 on the introduction of new standards of nutrition and clothing rations for prisoners in the correctional labour camps and colonies of the nkvd of the ussr.
Gulag prison food. A prisoner who went on hunger strike is being forcefully fed through his nostril. If a prisoner consistently failed to fulfill his work quotas he would slowly starve to death. But for some of the female prisoners simply being allowed to keep your children was a blessing. Some prisons support the dietary requirements of specific religions as well as vegetarianism.
Laogai the abbreviation for laodong gaizao which means reform through labor was an abolished criminal justice system involving the use of penal labour and prison farms in the peoples republic of china prc. Laogai is different from laojiao or re education through labor which was the abolished administrative detention system for. The food distributed to labour camp prisoners depended on the amount of work each prisoner could do and was divided into rations camp slang kotel pot. Volga german prisoners who were settling in russia since 18th century.
A full ration barely provided enough food for survival. Various gulag prison camps between 1923 and 1961. While some prisons prepare their own food many use staff from on site catering companies. Prisoners in the gulag received food according to how much work they did.
According to laws of soviet humanism only those who had normal body temperature 36637 c could be shot. Their papers were often lost or destroyed making a reunion someday almost impossible. Clockwise from top left. Pictures from the book drawings from the gulag by danzig baldaev a retired soviet prison guard.
Many of the gulag children were shipped to distant orphanages. Childhood in the gulag food rations. Though almost no prisoners in the gulags received adequate food the soviets instituted a system where more work led to better rations. Inmates of dalstroy building a part of the road of bones from magadan to yakutsk.
Lacking food they collect garbage and according to some prisoners eat rats and dogs unfortunately these conditions would constitute a paradise compared to what happened after the german invasion of the ussr in june 1941. Prison food is the term for meals served to prisoners while incarcerated in correctional institutions. Grave of nikolay punin an art scholar and writer who died in abez. 1929 mugshot of varlam shalamov a pro trotskyist poet after his first imprisonment.
