The best case scenario for being thrown in to the Gulag was being forced to work until you either died of starvation, exposure, or exhaustion. However, in many, a sizable portion had a worse fate. It wasn't just Eastern Europeans who were on the Bolsheviks hit list who ended up in them, Westerners (Americans, British, Canadians, French, etc.) also were placed in them if they knew too much. Even if the holocaust happened (it didn't, but for the sake of argument), the Gulag was far more brutal and there were easily x100 of them. There were what? A dozen or so German camps? The Gulag had thousands of camps.
Although Germany is one of the most note-worthy opponents of them due to the World Wars, Russia has a much longer history of fighting them, what the Bolsheviks did to the Russians was personal, not merely an enemy that had to be toppled like Germany in the World Wars or the US in 1812.
You can walk the streets with a red shirt and stalin's face on it with hammer and sickle, you risk nothing
Do the same with hitler's face and nazi svastika... And not only you risk to run into trouble with cops right away, depends on your country, but you also might very well get assaulted quite fast, stabbed eventually, leftists and even some normies will turn pavlovian super violent
Funny how that works uh?
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And mao is super cool
Mao is so bad that Stalin had to actually tell him to chill out.
EDIT: For context Mao was tearing down all the old buildings, mass executing the religious (even more than the Bolsheviks), erasing the Chinese alphabet, and collectivizing to the point Stalin thought "wtf dude?"
lol
See the guy in the vid? Rivek or idk what is name is
he's not a murderer, give him a rifle or a machete and go ahead rivek, murder all those families, he couldn't, he's too much empathy for that, he's soft
He talks, but that's larp and ignorance
HOWEVER, behind a desk far away for the actual horror, signing extermination orders, pushing buttons to kill millions, or at any given administrative position where he can screw the system hard... Yeah, he would, because that's just that, pushing buttons and signing stuffs, it's like a video game, it's sort of abstract/not real, you don't see what you actually do
And there are a lot like him in place already
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