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"One of the Most Important Pieces of Anti-Communist Literature"
Provocative map of Russia, illustrating the use of Slave Labor in Russia.
The map was published by the French Centtre d'Archives et de Documentation, based upon Don Levine's 1951 map, published for the American Federation of Labor.
First published by the AFL-CIO in 1951, the map depicts the Gulag system of forced labor camps in the USSR (Soviet Russia).
The map extends across the Soviet Union, illustrating the forced labor camps, which are marked by the red dots and by the hammer and sickler, with work areas denoted by red shading. The text describes the appalling conditions and methods of the Gulag system and slave labor in the Soviet Union, plainly stating that slave labor is one of the major sources of income for the Soviet government.
The work of Russian American journalist Don Levine, the map began as a collaboration between the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNESCO). Levine, a Russian-American journalist, was underwritten by the CIA and the Department of State. The map was first published in the anti-Communist magazine Plain Talk and later by Time. The Voice of America publicized the map all over the world, leading to frequent requests for reprints.
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