White Sea-Baltic Canal.

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75 years ago, it opened the White Sea-Baltic Canal named after Stalin.





The channel is open August 2, 1933, permanently worked 100 thousand prisoners, mostly individual farmers. The mortality rate reached 700 people per day, but the total number of employees did not decrease: the construction site constantly brought to completion ...



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Builders call kanaloarmeytsami prisoners. This "honor" in the name of a reduction in "G / R" (con) were later used in the documents to any prisoner.



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10, the main means of influencing the builders became "Kotlovka" - unequal power. Applying a simple trick: the less a prisoner generates, the less he was getting food. Subsequently, this "educational" method has become the norm in all of Stalin's camps.



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23 Note canal connects the White Sea with Lake Onega. The total length of the channel path 227 km, of which 37 km are the artificial way, the average depth of 5 meters.



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