Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in his book The Gulag Archipelago about how the Soviets avoided the term prisoners: The population of Ryazan [the location of a concentration camp set up in a former nunnery (Kazansky)] was very sympathetic toward the deprivees, as they were called. (Officially they were called not prisoners but “persons deprived of freedom.”) The Gulag …
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