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So wait, are they saying they do consider the USSR communist and that being a positive representation of communism?
Oh wait, I forgot, they deny the Holodomor happened, since it happened to the common worker and tankies don't care about them.
Average person: The USSR was Communist.
Communist: The USSR wasn't really Communist.
Lemmygrad: The USSR was Communism at it's finest.
Had a tankie claim the gulag were actually not that bad and "most prisoners survived." Oh neat, I guess we'll ignore the 1.6 MILLION that didn't.
even if that were true, surviving is a pretty low bar. you could get tortured every day for 10 years and still survive. what makes things even more absurd is that (like you said) tons of people didn’t even survive.
oh nah it's really simple, you just pretend that 1.6 million don't exist and is cia propaganda
"Most survived" is such a ringing endorsement.
Most ist more than a half. You to take what you get i guess.
That's the beauty of the Gulag, comrade. The more you send there, the more survive!