• QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
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    My former boss was in a gulag for most of his teens. He was not paid and to this day he has no idea what crime he was convicted of. He just knows he served time and was targeted by guards because he was Jewish and the Soviets were very bigoted.

    Maybe take a second to ask yourself what your real life experience is with the USSR.

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      Surely people going to jail for the wrong reason is something exclusive to the Soviet Union and not to all countries with a legal system? Like, damn, I feel sorry for your boss, but in dire circumstances such as those of the late 30s / early 40s in the USSR, excesses and abuses were sadly made because of the overwhelming conditions.

      Your boss may have spent his teens in a gulag, but the fact that he lived to tell you that is because the Soviets managed to miraculously defeat the Nazis and prevent them from genociding the Slavic peoples they categorised as “Untermenschen” according to the infamous “Generalplan Ost”, which implied genocide of almost all people between Germany and the Urals. If it wasn’t for the Soviets, your former boss would have been murdered in a concentration camp by the nazis.

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        Surely people going to jail for the wrong reason is something exclusive to the Soviet Union and not to all countries with a legal system?

        It isn’t common for people to be sent to slave camps as a punishment for years without knowing why they were charged. That’sthe kind of evil unique to totalitarian shitholes like the USSR.

        Your boss may have spent his teens in a gulag, but the fact that he lived to tell you that is because the Soviets managed to miraculously defeat the Nazis and prevent them from genociding the Slavic peoples they categorised as “Untermenschen” according to the infamous “Generalplan Ost”, which implied genocide of almost all people between Germany and the Urals. If it wasn’t for the Soviets, your former boss would have been murdered in a concentration camp by the nazis.

        The same nation you are praising put him IN a concentration camp for no fucking reason other than potentially because of his race.

        Like, damn, I feel sorry for your boss, but in dire circumstances such as those of the late 30s / early 40s in the USSR, excesses and abuses were sadly made because of the overwhelming conditions.

        No, you don’t. You wouldn’t be supporting their evil actions in this case if you had any empathy.

        You are making a lot of apologies for overt racism, why are you doing this and why do you think the USSR’s racism should be praised?

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        No one is in a US prison who has not had the opportunity to be present at their trial or know why they are charged.

        The nation I am talking about ceased to exist decades ago so whatever “your country” is it isn’t the USSR which is what we are talking about.

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            Not according to people I know who experienced both. In the USA you know your charges and you might not be enslaved.

            The USSR was evil and racist. It’s one of the reasons why they failed.

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                hence the “might not get enslaved”. You might not get enslaved in the US system. The USSR was enslaving all in the gulags.

                As you have repeatedly backed the evils of an authoritarian racist system are you in a place to judge anyone morally?

                Please change, we don’t need more people defending racism.

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                    so thats a big change of tone here.

                    No it’s what was said in a previous post. Your lack of reading comprehension in this case is worth noting in light of what follows which is incorrect and inane.