Katorga
The Katorga (one finds also the term in the plural) belonged to the system of penal judgment in the imperial Russia. The prisoners were sent in very distant camps, located in vast uninhabited areas of the Siberia and the Russian Far East. They were constrained to work.
Katorga began as of the 17th century and was taken again by the Bolchevik S after the Révolution of 1917.
In 1722, the Tsar Pierre Large the ordered for example the exile of the criminals, with woman and children, in the money mines of Dauria, in Eastern Siberia. During the Soviet period , the camps were then massively developed under the name of Gulag S.
Contrary to the concentration camps, the “katorga” belonged to the normal legal system of the Russia tsarist. But they have common characteristics: containment, simplified infrastructure (in opposition to the prisons), and forced labor (very painful tasks generally).
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