Quote Originally Posted by Antonio1986 View Post
During the existence of gulags, prisons as we understand them in the world today did not exist?
All convicts were sent to gulags?
no, there were 'prisons' also (in soviet times), eg Butyrka, Lubyanka, Bolshoy dom, Matrosskaya Tishina, Lefortovo, Taganka, Sukhanovo, Kresty to give you names of some of them