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.
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.
pucker4676@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
BilSabab@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
can’t compare really - absolutely different frameworks
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 17 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