{"id":47839,"date":"2025-10-03T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=47839"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:58:09","slug":"in-the-karaganda-gulag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/in-the-karaganda-gulag\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Karaganda Gulag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this office at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karlag\">Karlag<\/a><\/strong> labour camp in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karaganda\">Karaganda<\/a><\/strong>, the only decoration is a portrait of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vladimir_Lenin\">Lenin<\/a><\/strong> hanging on the wall. Some historians believe that Stalin&#8217;s Gulag was a natural extension of the labour camps run by Lenin&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheka\">Cheka<\/a><\/strong>. What is certain is that the article of the Soviet Criminal Code that would most often be invoked to imprison the regime&#8217;s real or supposed enemies in the camps was, in its original form, drafted by Lenin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits : 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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this office at the Karlag labour camp in Karaganda, the only decoration is a portrait of Lenin hanging on the wall. Some historians believe that Stalin&#8217;s Gulag was a natural extension of the labour camps run by Lenin&#8217;s Cheka. What is certain is that the article of the Soviet Criminal Code that would most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":47840,"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-47839","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\/47839","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=47839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47892,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47839\/revisions\/47892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}