They’ll literally talk about feeding millions of people alligators or put on theatrically staged shows of tying people up to chairs with bags on their heads and executing them via gunshot to the back of the head among other monstrous acts but will cry crocodile tears enough to flood the Great Plains with an ocean and accuse you of being a monster in human skin if you don’t want basic human rights for everyone.

It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible

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A maximum sentence in the worst Soviet prison in the Stalin era is a kindness to these people.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netOPM
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    I seriously doubt that someone who’s immediate response was to attack and dismiss my post… is interested in a “nuanced” discussion of any kind.

    projection

    And if your so called primary source is an American journalist who was allowed to visit some prisons, then I would ask you if you really believe they would allow her to tour the majority of facilities?

    Yes because the rest of her, and Callcott’s books both discuss their first-hand investigation of Soviet prisons across the union.

    I am suspect of propaganda in all its forms. And I’m in no way defending the fascist shithole that the US has become. I am simply pointing out that the US being shit is not a defense of Siberian labor camps, as your post implies.

    We live in a country that constantly spins outright lies about so-called enemies to justify the crimes against humanity it commits against everyone within and without its boarders.

    I am not implying that I am defending the Soviet penal system. I am speaking the truth.

    Alright you pass since you put in the effort