Just discovered that admins are removing resource-content on the subreddit. Both the DPRK and China megathreads that are in the sidebar have been removed, probably others too.
I doubt this is unique to only /r/communism, /r/communism101 is probably going to be hit as well.
I was banned for comparing the common estimated number of gulag inmates with the US prison population.😁
Doesn't it come out looking better for the gulag though?
It does. That was an antiamerican argument. I was banned simply for mentioning the number.
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Er no bud the US locks up more people than the height of the Soviet gulag period (which was just before ww2)
It imprisons more people than any civilisation that has ever existed: China, Iran, russia or DPRK and yes Soviet Union at height of the gulag period
https://srbpodcast.org/2013/05/11/us-prison-industrial-complex-versus-the-stalinist-gulag/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/30/the-caging-of-america
non paywall archive https://web.archive.org/web/20200115083649/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/30/the-caging-of-america
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Surely it's the same though as there were varying degrees of gulags - some for petty criminals and thieves were essentially just small villages miles from anything in Siberia where they led relatively "free" lifestyles and were allowed to take their families etc.
Probation/parole can hardly be considered freedom as you're still undersupervision and required to check into a police station or have a parole officer visit you etc.
I think it's a fair comparison, but I'd want to make sure the net is just as wide on the Soviet side, and includes non-gulag jails and such (if that's a thing, I know nothing about their prison system)
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I actually wrote a comment on this here in the past: https://hexbear.net/post/22867/comment/168034
Copying it because for some reason I can see that post in my post history but it won't load?
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Weird, it gives me "Something Went Wrong" and asks me to submit a bug.
All prisons do that. Prisons are for people that are a danger to others in society not for the terminally ill or dying. The idea that the Soviets were engaging in a method of falsifying their own private and internal documentation for their own archives because some libs might read those archives after the ussr is gone is a bit bizarre though. Why would they do that? It's data for them and you don't operate a state's internal data gathering that nobody will ever see on the basis that you expect your state to eventually end in a coup by traitors.
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ah, right