• grue@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    a punishment cell in an Arctic prison colony

    Why not just write “Siberian gulag” like a normal person?

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      10 months ago

      Gulag is a labor camp, we don’t know for sure this is a labor camp, it might just be solitary confident and torture.

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        10 months ago

        Gulag was just the prison system of the early USSR, they weren’t labour camps anymore than USA prisons are labour camps.

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          10 months ago

          A prison system of labor camps. It’s literally the definition and part of the Russian name for them.

          Gulag, (Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps”), system of Soviet labour camps…

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            10 months ago

            The difference between “prison” and “labour camp” is the same as the difference between “administration” and “regime”, “police” and “security forces”, or “insurgent” and “terrorist”