On the POWs, they were in camps called GUPVI, roughly Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees, not the GULAG. The executions referred to are GULAG executions made as soviet troops retreated and some camps were going to be left outside of soviet controlled territory.
I agree, don't mean to ignore it just note that the relationship is more complicated than capitalist pressure alone (and complicated ideologically to boot, just look at IIASA). The US was interfering at all times of course but the forms of interference were significantly different, and driven by different processes. The 30s for instance is a decade driven by the hope of selling huge industrial contracts to the USSR, and is in a world where the US and USSR were both not seen and did not conceive of themselves as principle world powers and antagonists (not that the USSR ever viewed the US in that way, it's complicated), and the USSRs comitern project is collapsing, it's internal paranoia is raging, all while the US is also in crisis and of course fascism.
On the POWs, they were in camps called GUPVI, roughly Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees, not the GULAG. The executions referred to are GULAG executions made as soviet troops retreated and some camps were going to be left outside of soviet controlled territory.
I agree, don't mean to ignore it just note that the relationship is more complicated than capitalist pressure alone (and complicated ideologically to boot, just look at IIASA). The US was interfering at all times of course but the forms of interference were significantly different, and driven by different processes. The 30s for instance is a decade driven by the hope of selling huge industrial contracts to the USSR, and is in a world where the US and USSR were both not seen and did not conceive of themselves as principle world powers and antagonists (not that the USSR ever viewed the US in that way, it's complicated), and the USSRs comitern project is collapsing, it's internal paranoia is raging, all while the US is also in crisis and of course fascism.