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Solovetsky Monastery

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Although it was constructed long before World War Two, the monastery gained a lot of attention during it. It was converted by the Soviet Union into a labor camp and prison until 1939.

It was one of the earliest camps of the gulag, which was the government agency in charge of the Soviet forced labor camps system that was created by Vladimir Lenin and reached its peak destruction during Stalin.