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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by mullen on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:25PM (#31072852)
I would not compare anything that happened in the West to what happened in the USSR. I don't recall anyone in the West being sent to a work camp or shot because someone accused them of something they were not.
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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by peace4all on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:08PM (#31073519)
Did I talk about forced labor in this comment above? I said: in later times, such clashes with bureacracy made people lose their entire career.
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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by adventured on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:04PM (#31073458)
Along with what would happen to your family. In the USSR it was often not just yourself, they'd also target your family and its well-being just the same in the name of collective guilt.
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