The Gulag was the government agency in charge of the Soviet forced labor camp system that was created under Vladimir Lenin and reached its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the 1950s, reports Wikipedia. Exiles were sent to remote areas of the Soviet Union: Siberia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, and the Russian Far East.
There are few who are still alive from the exiles. Mirian Gurashvili, 79, a survivor of the Soviet terror recounts a horrific story of his childhood.
It is very hard to even remember, says Mirian Gurashvili, who was exiled in Siberia in 1942 with his mother and two minor sisters at the age of three. His father, who was honored with Lenin's order, was shot for treason.
