goat@sh.itjust.worksM to MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 days agoCowbees defending gulags, Stalin and the USSR.sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down13
arrow-up131arrow-down1imageCowbees defending gulags, Stalin and the USSR.sh.itjust.worksgoat@sh.itjust.worksM to MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square24linkfedilink
minus-squareJiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days agoGulag does not mean prison, that is tyur’ma. GULAG was an acronym for the for the branch of government over the prison camps, Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravitel’no-trudovykh LAGere, or Main Administrative of Corrective Labor Camps.
minus-squaregoat@sh.itjust.worksOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoStill an affront to human rights, and the gulags still played a role in perpetuating genocide and cultural erasure
minus-squareJiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoNever said it wasn’t.
Gulag does not mean prison, that is tyur’ma. GULAG was an acronym for the for the branch of government over the prison camps, Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravitel’no-trudovykh LAGere, or Main Administrative of Corrective Labor Camps.
Still an affront to human rights, and the gulags still played a role in perpetuating genocide and cultural erasure
Never said it wasn’t.