The number of people KILLED in the mentioned Gulags is in the millions. The total number of killed by the regime is estimated as ~~20 million people. The number of people imprisoned in the US is just a bit north of a million.

Having a mass murderer on a picture and trying to picture it as "wasn't as bad as the US now" is distasteful. Have self-respect, spend effort and verify the numbers. Think critically about the picture you're thinking to upvote.

P.S. I'm not a US citizen or resident. In terms of freedoms, both the Soviet Union was terrible, and a lot of the events happening in the US right now are terrible.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Have self-respect, spend effort and verify the numbers

Historical review of the work of other historians in their guesstimations of the deaths in the Soviet penal system vs what the Soviet internal archives actually said when revealed post 1991 https://hexbear.net/post/136521?scrollToComments=false

Primary source on Soviet prisons from an american journalist and american penal system expert who actually went to them them in person https://hexbear.net/post/201947?scrollToComments=false

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The latter paragraph is about This Soviet World and Russian Justice, I thought I'd add links to the full books if anyone is interested.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago

headpat