What Happened to the Academics in the Soviet Union?

Some of the academics in the soviet union thought, o, stalin won't come for us. They'll never come for us. We're their friends, friends. So they found themselves in jail too. And when they found themselves in the gulags, what the sovietwt stalin did to the academics who had previously supported him was awful. He put them in golags. That were the conditions. Follow me, joif doesn't make sense, stopme. Were better than the siberian gologs, if you get what i mean. Even though they were imprisoned in gulog, he wanted to make sure he could get some work out of em