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Oh so you're valuing the lives of the Uyghurs and other minorities in concentration camps. You're really valuing the millions of Russian soldiers that die fighting a war of aggression. You value so highly all the innocent people in Gulags which are basically concentration camps too. I see now how highly you value those people, my bad.
lol, ”millions of Russian soldiers”, the entire personnel of the Russian military is about two million people, do you think they sent literally every single soldier in the Russian military to Ukraine? Gulags? What the fuck are you talking about, is everything you know about Russia from Cold War era propaganda?
I conceded that millions was indeed an exaggeration. If you don't know what Gulags are or doubt their existence, I guess it's clear everything you know about Russia is from its current state propaganda.
I know gulags existed like 70 years ago, you seem to think they still exist.
They do, just because they're called differently now, doesn't mean they disappeared. If you call yourself a leftist instead of tankie, doesn't mean you're not a tankie anymore.
Again, what the fuck are you talking about? Maybe try the section titled Where Did The Gulag Go? in Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds.
No idea what this is supposed to mean, but I'll gladly call myself a tankie since it's just a meaningless word used to slander anyone who's not a NATO leftist.
You didn't answer my question, where did Navalny die?
Where did Epstein die?
If someone answers "a prison", is your plan then to say "no, he died in a gulag" as if that would make any actual difference, or is there something else you're angling for here?