"The gulags also contributed to a nationwide culture of relinquishing children in state-owned orphanages. There is now an orphanage in almost every city in Russia. The Russians are not always kind toward these children. One tv show I watched in Moscow simply called them "little criminals", an attitude which has persisted since they were set up to house the children of those sent to the gulags."
Thanks for the post MarMema. Your always provide interesting perspectives about what is going on in Russia. This was something I did not know. Such misery for the Russian people for so long.
I did not mean to imply that the orphanage workers themselves were unkind. Nothing could be further from the truth.