The Gulag

The Gulag is a group founded by c0mmie_ in 2018. The group has no goals except have fun

Prologue
In late 2018, c0mmie_ and a few others went out to make a few bases of not much significance. That was, until the Gulag-Confederacy war began.

Gulag-Confederacy War
In the early days of the Gulag one of their first bases, The Wither Skull Road, was griefed by a group known as The Confederacy. After MinorityCatcher was accepted into the Gulag, he leaked the coords to Freedom2b2t and The Confederacy, and they would grief the base in a now deleted video. Following this, the Gulag was able to get Finn_Fry to inside the Confederacy and leak many bases to the Gulag. The war would eventually end a few months later when Conquest griefed the Confederacy's main dupe stash. More info about this can be found here.

Interwar Period
During what is called the interwar period, the Gulag had very few enemies, and the enemies they did have were very small and couldn’t do anything to stop them. During this period, the Gulag became allies with groups like Conquest, The Teutonic Order, and The Infinity Incursion to name a few. While the group continued to grow, however, a player named TheDarkOne_2 nuked the original Gulag discord, which had around 300 members, but the gulag recovered quickly. 3 other Gulag discords would be nuked, but the Gulag prevailed, with c0mmie_ saying,

“I honestly expected the Gulag to die at this point”. However, during the tail end of the water cube project, BachiBachBach mysteriously kicked c0mmie_ out of the server and removed him from allies. Shortly before this happened, c0mmie_ was talking about ways to get rid of Fit and r/2b2t to make the queue smaller for the long term. It is now believed that Bachi kicked c0mmie_ for not supporting Fit. c0mmie_ thought the II had sold out, and decided to go against them in a conflict that still goes on to this day

Present
The Gulag today is better than ever, with the group having weekly events that can range from construction to griefing. The Gulag is currently in conflict with The Infinity Incursion and HWU, but their attempts at stopping the Gulag have resulted in failure.

China
Coordinates: Unknown

China was the first base the Gulag would ever make, located roughly 100k out. However, while the base was under construction, a player by the name of SadieLee found it and started griefing. The Gulag would then fight SadieLee, making him log multiple times until a screenshot of the base was put on r/2b2t. The coordinates are sadly lost to time.

According to c0mmie_, the base had an unfinished underground section that was meant to become mined out and turned into the main area, similar to the Boedecken. He also claims that most dirt was replaced with birch wood and had an upside down pyramid.

Wither Skull Road
Coordinates: -240511 -112150

The Wither Skull Road was the Gulags' second base. It was given its name after c0mmie_ tried to make a wither cage but failed. The base was one of the largest bases the Gulag ever made. It was griefed by the Confederacy, leading to the Gulag-Confederacy war.

Valley of Ender Chests
Coordinates: 10k -10kIn 2019, Gulag members c0mmie_, theboss24611 and jnyhh built the Valley of Ender Chests. The base was a “copy” of the recently made Valley of Crafting Tables and Valley of Glowstone. The base was visited by digmc in 2020 and is known for the immense fps lag that is generated when you go there.

c0mmiegrad
Coordinates: 2437 -121

c0mmiegrad is a large obsidian dome with a pyramid in the center. The base was first designed on a private server hosted by aternos.org and was then built on 2b2t. The base took around 1 hour to create, while the watercube took around 12 hours to make as the Gulag had to manually mine all of the ice they would need.

Relations
Brownmen - Strong alliance, with many members of the Gulag being friends with many members of the Brownmen and vise versa.


 * The Book Club
 * Bakery
 * Quarantine
 * No Server November

Team Rocket - Close allies, very large overlap in membership.

2BQB - Allied, Gulag advertises the group and sends people who are able to bot the queue over to 2BQB.

SGA - Close alliance, with the Gulag being one of the oldest groups in the alliance.

Teutonic Order - Inactive alliance as the groups don’t support each other as much as they used to.

TeamNoTrees - Close alliance as the Gulag sends supplies and people over.

Infinity Incursion - The Gulag declared war after c0mmie_ was kicked from the group for being ‘inactive’. Theorized by some that Commie was kicked from II for supporting Fit, as he had been an active member and when he was banned he was talking about ways to perm lower queue and his disdain for Fit being in II.

Highway Workers Union - HWU declared war after c0mmie_ created a fake IIS group to troll and inside highway workers. The Gulag has since demoralized HWU to the point where they gave up repairing the 500 radius of nether roads.

The Republic - War was declared after Bartolome betrayed c0mmie_. Due to the nature of the group, the war has become a stalemate with both sides not being able to hurt the other, or really caring about the other.

Trivia

 * The Gulag was featured in BobbyBoJanglles' video on 2b2t.
 * Unlike other groups, The Gulag has no hierarchy. This is to prevent group inactivity and corruption in the group.
 * It took over 2 shulkers of ender chests to build c0mmiegrad.