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China’s Concentration Camps (1/2)Laogai: The Chinese Gulag

60 min

Available until 29/06/2025

Established by Mao Zedong in the 1940s, China’s concentration camp system has committed 50 million people, intellectuals, workers, students, peasants, to a life of hell over the last eighty years, with 20 million deaths. Not dissimilar to the Soviet Gulag, this cruel system of oppression was intended to bring about a ‘thought reform’ in the prisoners.

Survivors of the Laogai system, now living in exile, tell their story in this in depth documentary.

Director

Tania Rakhmanova

Country

France

Year

2021

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