Day 1,083: gulag

Gulag is Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagerei, Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps, in Russia.

Artwork of the day 
I Came Like I Promised
Yves Tanguy
Original Title: Je suis venu comme j'avais promis, Adieu
Date: 1926
Style: Surrealism
Genre: landscape
Dimensions: 100 x 73 cm

Word of the day 
gulag: severe work prisons for people found guilty of crimes against their country

Quote of the day
“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956