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Here’s a mini thread to clarify what a “gulag” is, for those who only have heard it being used as a buzzword and why sending a bigot to one is actually a compassionate, non-violent course of action...

So... first of all,the USSR no longer exists, therefore "gulags" no longer exist. May as well make a case against orientalism but USSR =/= Russia. Russia is NOT governed by a communist party. Got that? Okay, good.

So... gulags. First myth to debunk: "u work until u die in gulags!!!!".

The Soviets did away with life sentences and the longest sentence was 10 years. Capital punishment was reserved for the most heinous, serious crimes.

Why? The penal system was a rehabillitary one and self supporting, a far cry from the Western, capitalist notion of prison. The aim was to correct and change the ways of "criminals". If it couldn't be done in 10 years, it couldn't be done at all.

Much like wider Soviet society, everyone who was *able* to work did so at a wage proportionate to those who weren't incarcerated and, as they gained skills, were able to move up the ranks and work under less supervision.

Educational work was also a prominent feature of the Soviet penal system. There were regular classes, book clubs, newspaper editorial teams, sports, theatre & performance groups.

There's so much more to add but the reality is none of you actually care to learn about gulags. You don't care about what fascism actually is and how it fuelled by anti-communist, orientalist myths and lies propagated by the CIA.

Long story short, friends, the ideas of TERFs and anti trans bigots literally *kill* and must be eradicated through reeducation. Science must be decolonised and de-essentialised in order for this to happen.
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[Margaret Hodge is a Jewish Labour MP who called Jeremy Corbyn “an antisemite and a racist.” The Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council are the representative bodies of mainstream Jews in the UK, including all groups apart from the Ultra-Orthodox and the far left.

Scott Ryan: I think a lot of people will now start to be Anti Jewish if the real jewish people allow their far right wing Tory arsehole licking Nazis to keep trying to destroy the Labour party All honest decent Jews know Jeremy Corbyn is the last person in the world to be a bigot or a racist Its Tory Bullshit to cling to power so they can carry on murdering the sick unemployed disabled and carry on stealing from the poor to give to the Rich. These Tory Nazi bastards will start WW3 To cling to power they would sooner see everyone dead than loose power now they have made themselves millionaires of the backs of the working class.

Nick Pile: The backstabbing carried out by Hodge and her ilk only represents the wishes of only a minority of Jews. That minority includes the Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council, both self-appointed organisations claiming to represent the Jewish community but both with very strong links to the tories, and with no good intent for Labour. I hope “a lot of people” don’t, as you say, become “Anti Jewish”: heaven knows this country has more than enough divisions!