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It really hurts your credibility when you mix up distinct Soviet eras. The Gulag system began to be dismantled immediately upon Stalin's death and was fully di

by skzv 5y ago

It really hurts your credibility when you mix up distinct Soviet eras. The Gulag system began to be dismantled immediately upon Stalin's death and was fully dismantled by 1960.

wiseowise 5y ago
Just because it began to dismantle it doesn't mean it was completely gone. Stories about KGB are popular for a reason, you know.
- int_19h 5y ago
  By late USSR, the KGB wouldn't put a bullet in the back of your head, either. They'd hand you over to "experts" who would declare you insane and shove you into a straitjacket - and even that treatment was generally reserved for active dissidents. By the way, the police and the KGB often didn't get along. There was a famous case where a couple of cops who were very drunk robbed a high-ranking KGB official (he was carrying food from one of those "special" stores). When their senior found out, he decided that it'd be better to cover it up, and had the KGB guy killed and dumped the body in the woods. The KGB eventually unraveled the case - and many other similar ones, of cops partaking in robberies and beatings. (https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-12-26-%0A---war-of-the-worlds--40-years-ago--there-was-a-murder-in-moscow-at-zhdanovskaya%0A--.r1773epN6D.html https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-12-26-%0A---war-of-th...) So on the whole, I suspect you'd be far more likely to be brutalized by the Soviet cops than by KGB.
razius 5y ago
FpUser 5y ago
His writing style and credibility live on a different planets.
egze 5y ago
Gulag still lives under a different name: FSIN https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/10/new-russian-prison-torture-video-surfaces-from-bombshell-leak-a75520 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/10/new-russian-prison... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/08/i-was-always-scared-inmate-who-exposed-systemic-russian-prisoner-abuse https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/08/i-was-always-s...

by skzv 5y ago

It really hurts your credibility when you mix up distinct Soviet eras. The Gulag system began to be dismantled immediately upon Stalin's death and was fully dismantled by 1960.

wiseowise 5y ago

Just because it began to dismantle it doesn't mean it was completely gone. Stories about KGB are popular for a reason, you know.

int_19h 5y ago
By late USSR, the KGB wouldn't put a bullet in the back of your head, either. They'd hand you over to "experts" who would declare you insane and shove you into a straitjacket - and even that treatment was generally reserved for active dissidents. By the way, the police and the KGB often didn't get along. There was a famous case where a couple of cops who were very drunk robbed a high-ranking KGB official (he was carrying food from one of those "special" stores). When their senior found out, he decided that it'd be better to cover it up, and had the KGB guy killed and dumped the body in the woods. The KGB eventually unraveled the case - and many other similar ones, of cops partaking in robberies and beatings. (https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-12-26-%0A---war-of-the-worlds--40-years-ago--there-was-a-murder-in-moscow-at-zhdanovskaya%0A--.r1773epN6D.html https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-12-26-%0A---war-of-th...) So on the whole, I suspect you'd be far more likely to be brutalized by the Soviet cops than by KGB.

razius 5y ago

FpUser 5y ago

His writing style and credibility live on a different planets.

egze 5y ago

Gulag still lives under a different name: FSIN https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/10/new-russian-prison-torture-video-surfaces-from-bombshell-leak-a75520 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/10/new-russian-prison... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/08/i-was-always-scared-inmate-who-exposed-systemic-russian-prisoner-abuse https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/08/i-was-always-s...