Which makes sense, because prisons need personnel and regular supplies and stuff. Building them all in the middle of nowhere makes finding personnel difficult and supplying needlessly costly. You don’t see the US building prisons in the far north of Alaska for the same reasons. I swear all these ‘critics’ never seem to think about the USSR being an actual country that needs logistics to operate instead of being a comic book lair of villains.
Which makes sense, because prisons need personnel and regular supplies and stuff. Building them all in the middle of nowhere makes finding personnel difficult and supplying needlessly costly. You don’t see the US building prisons in the far north of Alaska for the same reasons. I swear all these ‘critics’ never seem to think about the USSR being an actual country that needs logistics to operate instead of being a comic book lair of villains.