Is Russia Using Slave Labor in its "Closed Cities"?

Background info:
en.wikipedia.org...

Info from Source:
The number of closed cities in Russia is not publicly known, but it is estimated that up to two million people may live in them.

Cities still closed today by order of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom) include Lesnoy and Novouralsk in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ozyorsk in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Sarov in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Seversk in Tomsk Oblast, Snezhinsk and Tryokhgorny in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Zarechny in Penza Oblast, and Zelenogorsk and Zheleznogorsk in Krasnoyarsk Krai.

The Russian Defense Ministry is said to have closed a further 30 to 90 towns and cities; however, the official list is secret.



Comments:

Is Russia still using the techniques of Stalin by using slave labor?

Every country has slave labor pal. Even here in the wonderful USA! You can go down to Florida and purchase people to work for you....mostly Cubans. My grandfather had a few and had them roll cigars for him.

[edit on 23-4-2005 by Zabilgy]

Originally posted by Zabilgy
Every country has slave labor pal. Even here in the wonderful USA! You can go down to Florida and purchase people to work for you....mostly Cubans. My grandfather had a few and had them roll cigars for him.

[edit on 23-4-2005 by Zabilgy]

Yes, but the government doesn't condone it officially.