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That's not historically accurate. Since Glasnost and the opening of the Soviet archives we've been able to get a more accurate picture of these things. https:/

That's not historically accurate. Since Glasnost and the opening of the Soviet archives we've been able to get a more accurate picture of these things. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/archive/noticeboard/bergson/borodkin-ertz.pdf https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/arch... There were some political prisoners, but much in the same way we imprisoned some British after the revolutionary war and later confederates. Also, someone being convinced of something without committing a crime is a non sequitur. Countries can make whatever laws they want. I get where you're coming from, until I started studying Russian history I had the same view, I grew up with the same Cold War info like everyone else, but comparing that to the Spanish conquest of the Americas is night and day. The immense destruction has been unmatched in history (that we definitively know).

tpm 4y ago
> That's not historically accurate. It is historically completely accurate, as lived by the brother of my grandfather who was one of those forced laborers. Never saw a judge or a court. > Countries can make whatever laws they want. They can, but if lawless and brazen enough they can also 'convince' you of anything regardless of laws, which is what often happened. Written laws were not worth very much back then. > I grew up with the same Cold War info like everyone else Born on the oppposite side of the Iron Curtain, I did not grow up with the same Cold War info like you, I presume. > but comparing that to the Spanish conquest of the Americas is night and day It really is not. Just the Holodomor killed millions of people and that is just an episode.