{"id":47817,"date":"2025-09-19T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=47817"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:36:47","slug":"the-karaganda-gulag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/the-karaganda-gulag\/","title":{"rendered":"The Karaganda Gulag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the administrative centre of the former<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karlag\"> KarLag<\/a><\/strong> gulag in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karaganda\">Karaganda<\/a><\/strong>, Kazakhstan, stands a brightly coloured flag, typical of the Stalinist era, bearing a slogan glorifying work. This type of message, intended to reinforce communist ideology in an environment as harsh as that of a<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_camp\"> labour camp<\/a><\/strong>, is a good illustration of the propaganda methods used by the Soviet regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credit : Mathilde Ramkissoon<\/strong> (France, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sovietblocs\/\">@sovietblocs<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the administrative centre of the former KarLag gulag in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, stands a brightly coloured flag, typical of the Stalinist era, bearing a slogan glorifying work. This type of message, intended to reinforce communist ideology in an environment as harsh as that of a labour camp, is a good illustration of the propaganda methods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":47818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4871,1923,470,4002,4651],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-47817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-gulag","tag-karaganda","tag-kazakhstan","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-soviet-legacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47844,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47817\/revisions\/47844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47817"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}