About the book: 2019 / Since childhood, we have probably heard the abbreviation GULAG a million times. The vast majority of Russians do not know that this is just a management that existed from 1930 to 1960. Meanwhile, the system of forced labor has existed since the times of the Egyptian pyramids. When we sail on a ship along a canal, travel by rail, admire the forts of fortresses, or watch a rocket launch from a cosmodrome in Russia and the USSR, we must know that all this was done by the hands of forced people. Canals, fortresses, big cities, hydroelectric dams, 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 jet aircraft were designed in "sharashkas" where prisoners worked. The reader will learn about this and much more from the next book by Alexander Shirokorad.