| | ::Can we please have "Penal Colony" released from the strictures of "Gulag" please? [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 21:18, 6 November 2016 (EST) | | ::Can we please have "Penal Colony" released from the strictures of "Gulag" please? [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 21:18, 6 November 2016 (EST) |
| | :::AlanE, I fixed it. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 21:47, 6 November 2016 (EST) | | :::AlanE, I fixed it. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 21:47, 6 November 2016 (EST) |
| − | ::::Many Gulag were in fact founded as penal colonies. The City of Magadan, fot instance. Long before Hitler, the communists did not herd people into gas ovens, they simply dumped hundreds and thousands off the Tran Siverian Railroad in the wilderness out in the middle of nowhere, marked out on the ground were blocks and barracks were to built, and told to get to work. Many of these gulag/penal colonies did not need barbed wire fences as there was nowhere to go for sn escapee.[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''#NeverHillary'']]</sup> 08:03, 8 November 2016 (EST) | + | ::::Many Gulag were in fact founded as penal colonies. The City of Magadan, fot instance. Long before Hitler, the communists did not herd people into gas ovens, they simply dumped hundreds and thousands off the Tran Siberian Railroad in the wilderness, out in the middle of nowhere, marked out on the ground were blocks and barracks were to built, and told to get to work. Many of these gulag/penal colonies did not need barbed wire fences as there was nowhere to go for an escapee.[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''#NeverHillary'']]</sup> 08:03, 8 November 2016 (EST) |
| | :Thanks mate. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 22:04, 6 November 2016 (EST) | | :Thanks mate. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 22:04, 6 November 2016 (EST) |