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"Its height" is a very soft way of saying "during the Nazi invasion that ended up in the death of 25 million Soviet citizens"
False. The GULAG system was simply a prison system. Soviets believed in work as a manner of reintegration into society, correctional labor is not hard labor camp. The vast majority of prisons were near big cities like Moscow or Leningrad.
As far as I know, the number of Gulag deaths is about 700k, not "millions", but I'm quoting this from memory so feel free to correct me with actual data if you have it. It's easily disproven that Gulags were labor death camps by looking at the death rate over time:
You can see a peak death rate during the famine occasioned by the Nazi invasion (again in a period where 25 million Soviet citizens died). People died of hunger inside and outside prisons, albeit logically at a higher rate inside them.
The Famine was caused by the soviets policy changes decentralizing aggriculture in the assumption that farmers would still grow enough for everyone.
We know that this is true because the Chinese tried the same damn thing and got the same damn results during their own revolution.
You don't know what you're talking about and it shows. The famine you're referring to happened in 1931-1933, not WW2. By the late 1930s, agriculture in the USSR was collectivized almost wholly and producing better crop yields than ever in history in the region due to the rapid industrialization and usage of tractors and fertilizers.
This rapid industrialization (main reason why the Soviets pushed for rapid collectivization in the late 20s and early 30s) was driven by the geopolitical need to create a heavy industry + military machinery to fight Nazism. If it had not been for the rapid industrialization (which admittedly led to around 5 million deaths in 1930-1934 from hunger), the Soviet Union would have fallen to Nazism and tens of millions more would have been exterminated, remember that the Nazi Generalplan Ost was the extermination of the non Germans between Berlin and the Urals.
You literally blamed the famine on the Nazis in your previous comment!
Yes, the 1940s WW2 famine, a whole 10 years later