A happy holiday to the successors of the GULAG

Grigory Pasko, journalist

Soon after 8 March [The Russian shorthand name for International Women’s Day–Trans.] in Russia there impends yet another holiday, about the existence of which our population dimly guesses, but celebrates somewhat reluctantly and without optimism, perhaps… But after all, 12 March – is the Day of Workers of the Criminal-Execution System (UIS) [“Criminal execution” is far less ominous than it sounds, and merely refers to the “execution” of sentences imposed by courts, e.g. imprisonment, probation, etc.–Trans.]