Gulag. The state is in the state

From childhood, we probably heard the abbreviation of the Gulag a million times. The vast majority of Russians do not know that this is just a management that existed from 1930 to 1960. When we float on the ship along the canal, we go by rail, admire the forts of the fortresses or observe the start of the rocket from the cosmodrome in Russia and the USSR, we should know - all this was made by the hands of bonded people. Canals, fortresses, large cities, hydroelectric power plants, gold mines and much more were created by serfs, soldiers, prisoners and prisoners of war. We are rightfully proud of our technical achievements in technology, but, alas, the first Soviet ballistic missiles and reactive aircraft were designed in Sharashki, where prisoners worked