• seahorse [Ohio]
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    12 years ago

    Were gulags actually terrible places to be or was it just a place to reform counter-revolutionaries? The term “re-education” still sounds creepy though.

      • Mad
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        32 years ago

        i hope the takeaway from that is that prisons are unjustifiable, and not that gulags, or other forms of supposed re-education, are justifiable.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      42 years ago

      Gulags were not a great place to be by any accounts, but the conditions in US prisons are actually worse by pretty much every metric. This is a detailed read on how the system operated back in Stalin days.