The Gulags were every bit as horrible as the Holocaust and on a similar if not greater order of magnitude. There are not as many photographs and documentaries about it but one unique first hand account stands out: Danzig Baldaev's eyewitness illustrations
Drawings from the Gulag. Scroll through the pictures at that link for a taste. Google will bring you dozens more.
Of course we have Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's iconic written accounts too. But the visuals of Baldaev's illustrations really shock you to the core.
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Meh, just horrifying, really. And they say anal probing is done by space aliens...
This...
Honestly, this is arguably even worse than the Nazi camps, certainly just as bad as them.