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Under the Soviet system, a person was banished from the Moscow Center (Red Square) by a distance of kilometers.<ref>An internal passport system required individuals to carry papers showing restrictions, the number of kilometers a person was banned from the Moscow Center.</ref> The farthest being 7000 kilometers, or the Kolyma River in far Eastern Siberia.<ref>https://youtu.be/mWA54jX-VtY</ref> 1500 to 3000 kilometers usually meant the salt mines of [[Kazakhstan]].<ref>https://vimeo.com/192420959</ref> 3500 to 5000 kilometers usually was the logging camps of the River Lena in central Siberia.<ref>https://youtu.be/PA8gBxOAlu0</ref>  

Under the Soviet system, a person was banished from the Moscow Center (Red Square) by a distance of kilometers.<ref>An internal passport system required individuals to carry papers showing restrictions, the number of kilometers a person was banned from the Moscow Center.</ref> The farthest being 7000 kilometers, or the Kolyma River in far Eastern Siberia.<ref>https://youtu.be/mWA54jX-VtY</ref> 1500 to 3000 kilometers usually meant the salt mines of [[Kazakhstan]].<ref>https://vimeo.com/192420959</ref> 3500 to 5000 kilometers usually was the logging camps of the River Lena in central Siberia.<ref>https://youtu.be/PA8gBxOAlu0</ref>  

The camps were filled mostly with dissidents and the [[unemployed]] from the large cities, such as [[Moscow]] and [[Leningrad]]. Dissidents were mainly political prisoners or religious protestors. Political prisoners were branded "enemies of the working class," or more commonly, "enemies of the people." The unemployed were branded  "social parasites," similiar the [[National Socialist]] category of "shiftless elements."<ref>[[Marx]] did not consider homeless vagabounds, the [[lumpen masses]], as fit for the workers' revolution. Marx considered desperately impoverished people as tools of the "beougeoie," who would do anything for money, sell out revolutionary ideology, and not to be trusted.</ref>

The camps were filled mostly with dissidents and the [[unemployed]] from the large cities, such as [[Moscow]] and [[Leningrad]]. Dissidents were mainly political prisoners or religious protestors. Political prisoners were branded "enemies of the working class," or more commonly, "enemies of the people." The unemployed were branded  "social parasites," similar the [[National Socialist]] category of "shiftless elements."<ref>[[Marx]] did not consider homeless vagabounds, the [[lumpen masses]], as fit for the workers' revolution. Marx considered desperately impoverished people as tools of the "beougeoie," who would do anything for money, sell out revolutionary ideology, and not to be trusted.</ref>

When a person served out their time behind barbed wire, the system of internal banishment remained in place. A released prisoner then usually had to settle down in the village or community neighboring the Gulag camp where the guards and their families lived,<ref>Some cities and place names on maps are entirely the creation of the Gulag system as it was a vital part of Soviet economic development. Population statistics on Cold War era National Geographic maps often reflect the size of the prison camp population, which typically was 90% of the figure shown in the map's population key.</ref> and find menial employment in some service sector industry supporting their former prison guard slave masters and their families.<ref>The former prisoners' housing often consisted of converted chicken coops or the basements of their former prison guard slave masters.</ref>

When a person served out their time behind barbed wire, the system of internal banishment remained in place. A released prisoner then usually had to settle down in the village or community neighboring the Gulag camp where the guards and their families lived,<ref>Some cities and place names on maps are entirely the creation of the Gulag system as it was a vital part of Soviet economic development. Population statistics on Cold War era National Geographic maps often reflect the size of the prison camp population, which typically was 90% of the figure shown in the map's population key.</ref> and find menial employment in some service sector industry supporting their former prison guard slave masters and their families.<ref>The former prisoners' housing often consisted of converted chicken coops or the basements of their former prison guard slave masters.</ref>