In this March 25th story over at the Daily Mail titled "Care To Visit The Gulag, Comrade?" they report that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government are giving museum-style makeovers to some of the Soviet Union hell-holes where prisoners were executed, tortured, starved and frozen to death during the 1930's through the 1950's.
With the Perm-36 gulag one of the first to be revamped and being glorified to "reinforce a new narrative that Joseph Stalin was an 'effective manager' who made the Soviet Union great", their story reports that such gulags were built "to house the ideological enemies of socialism", of whom Stalin effectively 'managed' to slaughter millions. [Full article]