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    In Honor of Those Who Suffered in Stalin’s Gulag

    May 30, 2011 /

    source: http://www.artukraine.com/paintings/getman.htm THE GULAG COLLECTION: PAINTINGS OF THE SOVIET PENAL SYSTEM BY FORMER PRISONER NIKOLAI GETMAN “I was born on December 23, 1917 in the town of Kharkov, Ukraine” Nikolai Getman Book: “The Gulag Collection: Paintings of the Soviet Penal System by Former Prisoner Nikolai Getman” Published by The Jamestown Foundation Washington, D.C.; Year 2001 1. ESSAY NUMBER ONE FROM THE BOOK————————— In 1946 an artist named Nikolai Getman was imprisoned in the Soviet Union’s GULAG. During the 1920s, the Soviet Union developed a system of extreme repression and terror that inflicted forced famines, purges, executions, and arrests on the people of the Soviet Union. Under Josef Stalin, forced-labor camps…

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