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So you argue (at the risk of putting words in your mouth: "you can't compare USA and USSR prison camp systems because the work conditions are hugely different".
by CWuestefeld 11y ago
So you argue (at the risk of putting words in your mouth: "you can't compare USA and USSR prison camp systems because the work conditions are hugely different".
Then I respond: "but the systems are similar in the way they both grabbed unprecedented levels of citizens, and possibly the justice of their convictions".
Why are the dots you've decided to connect the right ones, while the dots that I think are important are just playing a game?
- tptacek 11y agoThe overwhelming majority of US prisoners do not do work for the direct benefit of the population at large.
- CWuestefeld 11y agoAlthough the Gulag system was intended to be an engine of productivity in the USSR, that goal was never achieved. Throughout its history, the work camps were never profitable, they never carried their own weight. So it's hard to say that in the USSR, the work camps were benefiting the population at large.