Your comment isn’t consistent with historical evidence, though. At the peak of WW2, the GULAG death rate was about 17-20%, during a famine and a war that killed about 10% of the country. Death rate for the war was 10%, so a 20% death rate in prison during the war doesn’t seem that crazy to me, and the fact that it was much lower before and after kinda indicates that it wasn’t the intention. Additionally, out of the millions that went thorugh the GULAG system, about 700k seem to be the consensus for political prisoners, which makes up only a fraction of the total. It’s not great, but it’s not death camps for the enemies of the state, it’s a prison system in an underdeveloped country undergoing the greatest war of human history.
Your comment isn’t consistent with historical evidence, though. At the peak of WW2, the GULAG death rate was about 17-20%, during a famine and a war that killed about 10% of the country. Death rate for the war was 10%, so a 20% death rate in prison during the war doesn’t seem that crazy to me, and the fact that it was much lower before and after kinda indicates that it wasn’t the intention. Additionally, out of the millions that went thorugh the GULAG system, about 700k seem to be the consensus for political prisoners, which makes up only a fraction of the total. It’s not great, but it’s not death camps for the enemies of the state, it’s a prison system in an underdeveloped country undergoing the greatest war of human history.