• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Someone has filled your head with propaganda.

    The gulags were the just the name of their prison system and most of them were actually west of the Caucasus.

    Oh, and America now imprisons more people (by numbers and per capita) than the USSR ever did.

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      2 days ago

      Also America’s prison system is for profit, encouraging them to incarcerate as many people as possible.

    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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      You are at beast don’t know what you’re talking about. Иисправительно-трудовые лагерея (ЛАГ in GULAG) are specifically, namely, explicitly concentration camps that used forced labour to kill people. It’s very distinct from the regular prison system, which used inhuman conditions to kill people at lower rates.

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      The gulags were concentration camps my dude, people got sent there for breaking laws like “criticism of the government”. Most “prisoners” died there.

      Also, you just couldn’t not make a “whatabout the USA” lol. Such a trope.

      • tane@lemmy.zip
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        Ah yes when discussing history you can only discuss the specific time period and CANNOT make any comparisons to modern day otherwise some idiot lemmy computer janitor will say it’s a trope or a fallacy or some stupid shit