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gulags were invented by a country professing state atheism

• jongjong 3y ago
  There is still the promise of potentially being freed after some time and most people who were there believed to some extent that they deserved to be punished for being a bad communist. If the class difference is big, the narrative to justify the difference must be strong; even under serfdom or slavery, there were uprisings when the narrative was weak. The lowest class has to be (to some degree) content with their situation.