Then if you say it they’ll raise 1950s farming failures and blame Socialism (rather than the conman Lysenko and his Lysenkoism)…
…and then pretend gulags were death camps… Even those for the 18 million that went through the gulag system the vast majority survived (one million dead out of 18 million isn’t a death camp, even if they were political punishment camps).
Those are arguments against Authoritarianism, not Socialism!
One million people died in soviet Gulags around the time of Nazi invasion. 25 million people died "altogether* in the USSR as a consequence of Nazi invasion.
Gulags weren’t particularly deadly, the whole country was because of fucking nazis
I feel like the former is also an argument against dogmatic ideologies, being unwilling or unable to question things can lead to some pretty bad misunderstandings.
Then if you say it they’ll raise 1950s farming failures and blame Socialism (rather than the conman Lysenko and his Lysenkoism)…
…and then pretend gulags were death camps… Even those for the 18 million that went through the gulag system the vast majority survived (one million dead out of 18 million isn’t a death camp, even if they were political punishment camps).
Those are arguments against Authoritarianism, not Socialism!
One million people died in soviet Gulags around the time of Nazi invasion. 25 million people died "altogether* in the USSR as a consequence of Nazi invasion.
Gulags weren’t particularly deadly, the whole country was because of fucking nazis
I feel like the former is also an argument against dogmatic ideologies, being unwilling or unable to question things can lead to some pretty bad misunderstandings.