History is truth - echoed through the hallways of time, breathing in the memories of many, living on in through the shape of present-day society which it has chiseled, the past resonating in the present. History contains the experiences of many, it is our stories – the essence of which make us human. Today we will be going on a journey, back into the Gulag of the Soviet Union, we will allow the prisoners of the Gulag to speak to us, to help us understand their plight. The GULAG is an acronym in Russian, which when translated into English means “Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps”. The Gulag consisted of a network of hundreds of labour camps and prisons, whose inmates were political prisoners of the Soviet Union from the 1920s until the mid-1950s. These camps can be compared in some ways to the Nazi Concentration Camps of the Second World War.