I knew the Nazis collaorated with the Soviets but did not know of the broad extent. Also, they covered some of the gulag situation, but not to enough IMO. To be clear the Soviets were an equal opportunity murdering machine - everybody participated and everybody got murdered sooner or later. But there was plenty of racism and bigotry to go around in Stalin’s regime.
Obviously, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago goes into great gory detail.
One of the great books on the socialist system.
As he put it, (I paraphrase)
Oh how we later burned in the camps to think that if
only those who came to arrest us in the middle of the
night had faced a bullet...
If you can find a copy, read “Alexander Dolgun’s Story”
A.D. is mentioned in the gulag series.
He was the son of an American engineer who went to
work in the USSR in the 1930s, he worked at the
US Embassy. He was thrown into the gulag for 15 years
and his story is enthralling.
Also various works by Robert Conquest, “Kolyma”,
“Magadan”, and of course “The Great Terror’ and
“Harvest of Sorrow” about the Ukranian famine.
Also about the famine
“Execution by Hunger. The hidden holocaust.”
by Miron Dolot which is a first person account
and which clearly shows the tactics used in forced
collectivization and the starvation that resulted
from Stalin’s war on the middle class.
(See Obama today)
“Kolyma, Kolyma
Amazing Planet
12 months of winter
the rest is summer...”
A toast....”To those still at sea!”
ie; those still in the gulag.