While I agree with your last line in spirit (the West demonstrated many times that they would uphold literal nazis as innoncent victims of communism if it served their propaganda purposes), it is important to note and repeat anytime it comes up that 95% of gulag inmates were ordinary, non-political criminals, according to the CIA:
No worries, and to be clear the point you ended up making isn't unimportant either - we shouldn't hyper focus on the 95% statistic and thereby seem to acknowledge the lib idea that any actual "political prisoner" in the USSR was an innocent saint. Counter-revolutionary actions naturally can and should be punished (depending on severity) in a socialist society.
While I agree with your last line in spirit (the West demonstrated many times that they would uphold literal nazis as innoncent victims of communism if it served their propaganda purposes), it is important to note and repeat anytime it comes up that 95% of gulag inmates were ordinary, non-political criminals, according to the CIA:
https://medium.com/@QueenDystopia/the-truth-about-the-soviet-gulag-surprisingly-revealed-by-the-cia-dfcd9f4d223b
Yeah, good call. That was kind of my point, that most of them were criminals but it kind of got away from me there, thanks for clarifying!
No worries, and to be clear the point you ended up making isn't unimportant either - we shouldn't hyper focus on the 95% statistic and thereby seem to acknowledge the lib idea that any actual "political prisoner" in the USSR was an innocent saint. Counter-revolutionary actions naturally can and should be punished (depending on severity) in a socialist society.