RFERL, I guess, is a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. It is a propaganda machine, not an objective history research institution. These 18 (and up, sometimes u

RFERL, I guess, is a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. It is a propaganda machine, not an objective history research institution. These 18 (and up, sometimes up to 40) millions of people in GULAG (notice all caps) numbers are taken from Solzhenitsin's works, if you go through the chain of sources long enough. And Solzhenitsiin's works are not based on any facts or documents. I also wonder where does this "at least 5 millions of them were convicted on false testimony" come from? How this interesting and significant number was obtained? Did the resource you cite analyzed every and all records of these 17 (18, sometiimes up to 40) million people?