Who was trapped in the strike and an armed uprising by Catalan seperatists ?
The preconditions for the uprising can be seen as the following : the arrival of waves of prisoners to the Gorlag , who had participated in the uprisings of 1952 , the death of Stalin on March 5 , 1953 and the fact that the amnesty that followed his death only applied to ( non - political ) criminals and convicts with short prison terms , the percentage of which was very low in Gorlag .