Man that is rough. Hot pokers to the ass
Man that is rough. Hot pokers to the ass
You are quite delusional, if you think the U.S does anything remotely close to what happened in the Gulags. From 1929 to 1953 alone, roughly 14 million people were held in Gulag camps. 6–7 million were deported and exiled to remote areas of the USSR, and 4–5 million passed through labor colonies, plus 3.5 million already in, or sent to, 'labor settlements'. Considering they started in 1918 and the last of them only closed in the 1980s, I would say you are full of BS.
A total of 1,053,829 people died in the Gulag from 1934–53. Some estimates go beyond 10 million deaths, overall.
Feel free to enlighten us how anything the US has done even remotely approaches any of these figures.
Last edited by Gorgodeus; 2015-07-17 at 01:16 PM.
Yes, why, are people surprised? UK, France, USA made a pact with this country to win WW2 and even gave it a part of Europe, including countries that were not on Axis's side, like Czechoslovakia. Yet, in the end, the USSR was actually worse than Nazi Germany. Though Imperial Japan in WW2 still takes the first prize in worst country.
As for today, Putin is indeed a child of this. He did work for the Russian KGB...
You mean the poor Poles who were doing the same to Czechs a couple years prior to that?
As for Molotov's pact... USSR was the last European country to sign it with Germany. By the year 1938 similar pacts were signed by the majority of European countries.
So, stop bashing USSR. It wasn't perfect, but the rest of the world wasn't any better.
See a thread about russian crimes a pitty if all we would do there is talk about the USA.
Wrong. If the Americans were a occupying force, they would not be paying Rent for the land, ports they use and would not be obeying local laws. Furthermore they were invited into the region.
Meanwhile Estonia for example still has to deal with Russian Settlers, who were brought in to destryo local culture, who are still refuseing to integrate even after the fall of the USSR.
Lots of soviet remnants and fossils around here. Its disgusting...
Do you know what's really sad and just fucked up? Russian people in their 40-70's will never accept this reality. I grew up in environment where adults were talking about USSR like it was a really nice place. And yet everyone knew about these concentration camps. They just still believe that only "really-really bad people" were sent to GULAG's. "Bad people deserve bad things." Yeah, I know it sounds terrible, but that's exactly what they think, as it seems to me.