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my problem with this thread; u can't tell who is actually communist and authoritarian, and who is just authoritarian
The difference is whether you get sent to a concentration camp or a gulag.
Oh, I guess they are pretty similar...
Uh, depending on the concentration camp, not really.
I don't want to defend gulags but they didn't have poison shower rooms or child corpse disposal staff.
Working your slaves to death sometimes, sure, but you mostly came out the gulag alive.
Broken, but alive. Historians estimate that of about 20 million people sent to the gulags about 1.5 million died in them.
Which is a horrific example of compliance through terror but not quite the same thing as an extermination program.
Don't minimize the Holocaust on your way to agree with everyone else that tankies are delusional assholes.
Just be aware that the term concentration camp was used long before the NSDAP created their destruction camps. smithsonian
Sure, but the commenter had a very specific set in mind and it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.