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The Kolyma camps switched to using (mostly) free labor after 1954, and in 1956 Nikita Khrushchev ordered a general amnesty that freed many prisoners. Various estimates have put the Kolyma death-toll from 1930 to the mid-1950s between 250,000 and over a million people. [13]
Eduard Petrovich Berzin (Russian: Эдуа́рд Петро́вич Бе́рзин, Latvian: Eduards Bērziņš; 19 February 1894 – 1 August 1938) was a Soviet soldier, Chekist and NKVD officer that set up Dalstroy, which instituted a system of slave-labor camps in Kolyma, North-Eastern Siberia, one of the most brutal Gulag regions, where hundreds of thousands of political prisoners died or ...
The R504 Kolyma Highway (Russian: Федеральная автомобильная дорога «Колыма», Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma», "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road through the Russian Far East.
The section on death tolls appears to misinterpret the quote in its source, which lists estimates for the death toll entire system of camps in Kolyma rather than an estimate for deaths building the highway specifically. Kolonokavi 19:37, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Author claims that White puts the number of victims in the Kolyma death camps at 500,000. Most scholarly research estimates the Stalin death toll at a conservative 20 million people throughout the slave labour system.
Death Toll Passes 1,100. Liz Wolfe. October 9, 2023 at 9:39 AM ... The Associated Press offers photos that "show fear, death and destruction in battle scenes from Israel and the Gaza Strip" here.
Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-285091-1. Kolyma – Off to the Unknown – Stalin's Notorious Prison Camps in Siberia by Ayyub Baghirov (1906–1973) Martin J. Bollinger (2003). Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the West. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-275-98100-6.
KAMPALA (Reuters) -The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda's capital Kampala has risen to 21, police said on Sunday, as rescue workers continued to dig for survivors.