The prison system in the soviet union was pretty similar to the system in place by the tsar - gather the problems up, send them to siberia. A new system that gestates in the womb of the old will have to struggle to shake these things, or whatever marx said.
but nah man, stalin invented prisons, go off
BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
the tsarist prison system was nowhere near as elaborate and infrastructurally sophisticated as GULAG and it wasn’t integrated into the economy so the comparison is dubious at best.
Diva@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Gulags were a practice that started under the tsar, deaths went down under soviet governance and eventually they ended it Image
flyby@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Not arguing for or against the gulag point but this graph doesn’t prove anything apart from the fact that in 40s-50s there were medical advancements that reduced mortality rate of prisoners (duh) Proof that works here would be number of prisoners in gulag per capita for example
pucker4676@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
I’m not sure how any westerner can complain about the prisons in the USSR with the state of the prison system in the US empire today. Spoiler alert, it’s worse in the US today.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
can’t compare really - absolutely different frameworks