MFers will shit themselves crying if you say the Soviet penal system wasn't actually remotely as bad as the history books portrayed it to be then turn around and take selfies at Alligator Auschwitz

They'll literally talk about feeding millions of people alligators or put on theatrically staged shows of tying people up to chairs with bags on their heads and executing them via gunshot to the back of the head among other monstrous acts but will cry crocodile tears enough to flood the Great Plains with an ocean and accuse you of being a monster in human skin if you don't want basic human rights for everyone.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible

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A maximum sentence in the worst Soviet prison in the Stalin era is a kindness to these people.

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Every time I head libs complain about the Gulags in biographies of people who "suffered through them" they always have a line like "They were terrified because going to the gulag was practically a death sentence." Then after the gulag chapter is done, the biography continues with like "10 years later they moved to the US and unveiled the horrible truth about the gulags, getting multiple book and movie deals and becoming a millionaire. They now spend their time collecting world war 2 memorabilia and expanding their collection of unusual tattoos."
It's always "The gulag was an evil death sentence" and then "after the (actually pretty reasonable) amount of time they spend in the gulag, they were free to move overseas and leave the USSR to live their life how they want. THUS PROVING how evil the USSR really was!"
No see, people deserve to be treated much worse than even normally maltreated prisoners in the US because........ possibly maybe having a visa violation.
- "They came here to escape worsening material conditions in their home country (which was probably caused by the US)? STICK THEM IN THE GATOR PRISON"
but will cry crocodile tears enough
i see what you did there
It is obviously impossible for two things to be bad!
- Solzhenitsyn, one of the most influential figures in the western perception of the gulag system, had his cancer treated there and it saved his life. His book is mostly rumors and folktales written as though they were things he had witnessed, which is why editions in some languages call it what he did, a "literary experiment," and his wife further clarified in an interview for NYT decades later that these were folklore. Solzhenitsyn was also an antisemitic freak who somewhat bought into the "Judeo-Bolshevism" thing and was arrested for writing a letter about how the USSR needed to be overthrown while he was an officer in the Red Army on the Eastern Front, favoring an Eastern Orthodox theocratic monarchy.
  Robert Conquest, probably the other most influential figure in this perception, claimed more people died in the gulag system than had ever even been entered into it (as we discovered when we gained access to the Soviet archives). This joins the list with other discredited theses from him, such as his thoroughly-debunked idea that the USSR's Great Famine of '32-'33 was a deliberate "terror famine" and a Holocaust-like event. He also preceded his work as a "historian" by working for 8 years in post-war British intelligence as specifically an anti-Soviet propagandist.
  Just some fun facts.
- Who fucking asked you, shitlib
  
  Oh no I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings in this public post you made!
- We can obviously agree that prisons in the soviet union were bad during certain periods of Soviet history. It rose out of the tsarist system and became formalised during one of the most brutal civil wars in history, and its most famous and most explored period was during the most brutal invasion and land war the world has ever seen. But I venture to say that there is a pretty significant difference between electing not to feed the nazis first during a famine, and doing ethnic cleansing tourism.
- Good point, here's my reply, gonna spoiler it since it might offend hexbear:

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