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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by at_a_remove on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:42AM (#31072204)
You're the first person in the thread to bring up work camps. How easily one can defeat a specter of one's own construction.
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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by ch4s3 on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:43PM (#31078156)
That’s 100% what happened to political offenders in the USSR even after GULAG officially closed. Theses scientists may have gotten article 58, but I didn’t dig that deeply. There is no US parallel.
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