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7. After Stalin died in 1953, the number of people sent to the gulag

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After Stalin died in 1953, the number of people sent to the gulag "decreased dramatically", since Stalin was the one who was ultimately in charge of the "Great Purge" that sent thousands of people to their death in labor camps. 
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