The point about the cold is funny because the majority of gulags were located near (big) cities, so even if it was freezing you’d be in a city soon lol. Like, there’s 0 effort involved in debunking a point like that.
Which makes sense, because prisons need personnel and regular supplies and stuff. Building them all in the middle of nowhere makes finding personnel difficult and supplying needlessly costly. You don’t see the US building prisons in the far north of Alaska for the same reasons. I swear all these ‘critics’ never seem to think about the USSR being an actual country that needs logistics to operate instead of being a comic book lair of villains.
The point about the cold is funny because the majority of gulags were located near (big) cities, so even if it was freezing you’d be in a city soon lol. Like, there’s 0 effort involved in debunking a point like that.
Wait, I never heard of that point… what’s the closest one to Moscow?
Those inside Moscow I’d guess. We think of gulags as prisons, with defined locations. But it seems as if they, at least some, were more temporary. Which makes sense when considering they were for construction jobs, which might take you from the Moscow to the Volga, or from the Baltic to the white sea.
The point about the cold is funny because the majority of gulags were located near (big) cities, so even if it was freezing you’d be in a city soon lol. Like, there’s 0 effort involved in debunking a point like that.
Which makes sense, because prisons need personnel and regular supplies and stuff. Building them all in the middle of nowhere makes finding personnel difficult and supplying needlessly costly. You don’t see the US building prisons in the far north of Alaska for the same reasons. I swear all these ‘critics’ never seem to think about the USSR being an actual country that needs logistics to operate instead of being a comic book lair of villains.
Wait, I never heard of that point… what’s the closest one to Moscow?
Those inside Moscow I’d guess. We think of gulags as prisons, with defined locations. But it seems as if they, at least some, were more temporary. Which makes sense when considering they were for construction jobs, which might take you from the Moscow to the Volga, or from the Baltic to the white sea.