People on hunger strike were fed through their nostril. The Gulags would not execute an unhealthy man. So they had to force them to get well before they could be shot:

High level criminals and gang leaders were treated much better than political prisoners and enemies of the state. They often had their own sex slaves and grunts working for them. So the real criminals had a much nicer life than those who were in there for ideological or invented reasons:

Guards picking out their sex slaves:

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