The Gulag system was pretty shitty, it wasn't all that bad in regards to the number of people that were ever in it though; it's all time high of like over 2 million was in 1942 or 1943 so obviously most of those people were German POWs. Another system that was pretty shitty was the internal exile system since it was also a means of trying to make places like Central Asia and Siberia more Russian both in numbers and culturally. Overall the worst thing you could actually point to as being a bad thing during the Stalin era would be the Holodomor but even then, a famine happening isn't gonna be all that uncommon for a place like Russia in the early 20th century and it likely would've been way worse had Russia been controlled by the whites.
“holodomor” never happened tho.
Don’t get me wrong, there WAS a famine in the 1930’ies. It wasn’t caused, but was partly exacerbated by political decisions. That it was some kind of special punishment for Ukrainians or only happened in Ukraine is absolute, ahistorical nonsense. The famine affected other parts of the USSR, including Siberia just as bad as it did Ukraine.
As for gulags, it’s true that the numbers were never as high as anti communists later made them out to be.
And fuck, gulags are a great idea. Imagine if we had them in America, and sent the administrative class there for reeducation through work.
“You spent the last decade in the State Department, creating LGBTQ friendly HR materials? That’s great… But for the foreseeable future, you’re going to do actually useful stuff. Like breaking rocks into smaller rocks and pebbles and use those pebbles to build a road!”
I mean, here's the agenda 47 platform, you can clearly see where Epstein is on there:
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Hmm yes. So he just talked about releasing them and promised to get to the bottom of it, but he didn’t DOUBLE PINKY PROMISE to release them, I got ya!
(Btw… How about them promises “not cutting SE and Medicaid” and of “restoring peace in Europe and the Middle East lmao! Guess that was before bombing Iran and BBB making cuts in SS and Medicaid!)
The Epstein stuff was never a major promise of Trump's presidential campaign.
Goddamn man, this is embarrassing.
Some of y’all remind me of, and sound just like Democrats last year when they pretended that Biden totally wasn’t senile and in fact was sharp as a tack.
“Nooooo stalker child! When Trump said he’ll get to the bottom of it and release the Epstein files, he didn’t ACTUALLY mean he’ll get to the bottom and release them!”
And yesterday Trump suggested that it was all just a “Democrat psyop”. Looool.
Honest question: How in the fuck can you defend this shit and still look yourself in the mirror the next day? Not talking about “Welp, at least he’s not Kamala” but actually defend it?
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