Beyond even that, there are more people in jail for blatant political reasons in America right now than there were in the gulags over their lifespan. The scale of mass incarceration in America puts it an order of magnitude ahead of anything else similar in human history barring maybe the Atlantic slave trade, even that was 13 million over 400 years compared to 2 million processed per year in the US prison system.
The us prison system is almost keeping up with generational chattel slavery in terms of body count...
Beyond even that, there are more people in jail for blatant political reasons in America right now than there were in the gulags over their lifespan. The scale of mass incarceration in America puts it an order of magnitude ahead of anything else similar in human history barring maybe the Atlantic slave trade, even that was 13 million over 400 years compared to 2 million processed per year in the US prison system.
The us prison system is almost keeping up with generational chattel slavery in terms of body count...