• brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Gulag was just the prison system of the early USSR, they weren’t labour camps anymore than USA prisons are labour camps.

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      10 months ago

      A prison system of labor camps. It’s literally the definition and part of the Russian name for them.

      Gulag, (Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps”), system of Soviet labour camps…

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        10 months ago

        The difference between “prison” and “labour camp” is the same as the difference between “administration” and “regime”, “police” and “security forces”, or “insurgent” and “terrorist”