• novibe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Hum… and? Outside of the propaganda, yea gulags and? I don’t see the point.

    Are you saying prisons are bad? I agree, I’m fully a prison abolitionist. But I don’t see how saying “look prisons!” is any argument against the USSR in particular.

    Prisons have existed for a long time everywhere. And many times and in many places were much worse than the gulags.

    Just keep in mind that again, 90% of what you read on gulags is literal Cold War and Nazi propaganda…

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      You’re full of bullshit. Cite your sources that Gulags were like a typical prison, because they are obviously not.

      Exporting 18 million people to the middle of fucking nowhere where it reaches -53C to work camps outside resulting in millions of deaths is definitely not normal.