[Carioca]

I've been reading up on Soviet Rocket history and both Kurolev and Glushko were sent to Gulags for suspicion of organizing against the government. On the other hand they did do dome engineering work while there, so I suppose there were facilities that didn't conform to today's image of a Gulag

[thriftwy]

It was much worse - why pay scientists and engineers when you can arrest them and exploit them to work for free?

It's as bad as privatized incarceration and worse.