goatM to MeanwhileOnGradEnglish · 1 year agoTankies romanticising gulags, which included queers and ethnic groups -- "Gulags were a tool of their era to keep the country afloat while handling counter revolutionaries, actual Nazis, criminals"imagemessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down113
arrow-up1-1arrow-down1imageTankies romanticising gulags, which included queers and ethnic groups -- "Gulags were a tool of their era to keep the country afloat while handling counter revolutionaries, actual Nazis, criminals"goatM to MeanwhileOnGradEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squareSpaceinv8erlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoSo how is this guy romanticizing it? I’m not being an apologist here, but that is exactly what they were used for? To crush dissent.
minus-squaregoatOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoThey are implying the gulags were a necessary evil, but don’t mention ethnic groups or queers who were imprisoned or executed.
So how is this guy romanticizing it? I’m not being an apologist here, but that is exactly what they were used for? To crush dissent.
They are implying the gulags were a necessary evil, but don’t mention ethnic groups or queers who were imprisoned or executed.