The White Sea-Baltic Canal was the graveyard of untold numbers of people. They were worked to death, fed on a rationing scale that equated work production to the amount of food a “zek” – or prisoner- recieved. The so- called work norms were generally impossible for the average slogger, and as their health declined rapidly, so did the food they received. This quickly established a system under which the weaker the prisoner became, the more rapidly he or she died. This cruel system was developed by the former prisoner, and later the commander of SLON- the Northern Camps of Special Purpose- Naftaly Frenkel. This architect of millions of deaths was protected throughout his career and life by Stalin himself. This monster should sit in the halls of infamy right alongside Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the holocaust- and yet very few even know his name. The Russian republic, as the inheritor of the USSR’s crimes against humanity, has never, even posthumously, denounced this evil fiend, or any of the multitude of criminals responsible for the murder of perhaps as many as 20 MILLION people-the country’s own citizens, and many different nationalities that were deported to GULAG under the Soviet Empire. The mere denunciations of the so called “personality-cult” are all that history will record of official responsibility in this unprecedented, seventy-year long experiment in mass murder, torture, and terror. With that said, the silence of the West during these long years of death should shame every so called “intellectual”, for the West’s silence (and often approval) amounted to collaboration in the whole system of GULAG. The White Sea-Baltic canal alone resulted in the deaths of an estimated 30 thousand people.