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  1. "[S]ix million people were sent to the #Soviet #Gulag. A quarter did not survive. Another 16-17 million were transported to strict regime #laborcamps, where the death rate was around 10%.

    Within these numbers are the names of tens of thousands of #Jews of every kind, from the devout #hassid to the #assimilated #Communist.

    #Stalin’s rule was fortified by spies who believed that they were repairing the world and saving it from the ravages of #fascism. The most effective of these were five young idealists who were at #CambridgeUniversity in the 1930s and who bore witness to the rise of #Hitler and the march of #Nazism across Europe.

    #TheCambridgeFive: #GuyBurgess, #DonaldMcLean, #KimPhilby, #AnthonyBlunt, and #JohnCairncross sold their collective soul to Stalin. While their story has been retold countless times in many #books, the remarkable Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by #AntoniaSenior sheds new light[...]"

    jpost.com/history/article-9011

  2. CW: Sugar, forced labour, concentration, death: camps

    […]
    "The construction of concentration camps was inspired by a similar policy developed by British colonies during the South African War" (the Second Boer War, 1899 – 1902).
    allthatsinteresting.com/shark-

    To show willingness to use violence and terror, the Nazi regime created concentration camps often situated in suburbs of major cities. The first of these camps was opened at Dachau, near Munich in Bavaria, in March 1933.

    Eight years later, the aim of the extermination camps was genocide: to murder and annihilate Jews and Roma. Chełmno was the first extermination camp to be established in December 1941. The Nazi regime decided to locate all six extermination camps in Poland.

    More: theholocaustexplained.org/the-

    #reconcentrados #laborCamps #concentrationCamps #deathCamps #exterminationCamps #Germany #Nazi #WWII #Europe #SharkIsland #history #Hereros #Herero #Namibia #genocide #EstelleSays #Dachau #Munich #Hitler #Nazism #Volkism #WW2 #WorldWarTwo

  3. #Trump's #SecretaryOfRetribution
    #USpol

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    ...#CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union] members fell from 3.5 million to 1.6 million.
    Countless #Soviet citizens were executed or lost their lives in the #LaborCamps during this period." 3)

    The list of 350 will certainly just be a start. The "great" dictators of the 20th...

    3)
    Arch Getty, Origins of the Great Purges. The Soviet Sommunist Party reconsidered. 1933-1938, Cambridge, Mass. 1985 et al in:
    bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz

  4. "#Cuba repressed #gay #people after its 1959 #revolution, led by #FidelCastro, and sent many to #laborcamps. But in recent years, the #communist-run island barred #antigay #discrimination, and a 2022 government-backed “#familylaw”—approved by popular vote—allowed #SameSexCouples the #right to #marry and #adopt."

  5. 4,913 cases of #COVID19 at meat and poultry processing facilities, have resulted in at least 20 deaths

    #COVID-19 Among Workers in Meat and Poultry Processing Facilities

    They’re sneezing on your food! They’re coughing on your poultry! They have fevers & are forced to continue slaughtering what ends up on your table.

    #ForcedLabor #LivingPetriDishes #LaborCamps #MoneyTrumpsLives

    cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6

  6. The reality is that people make up the economy, not the stock market or massive corporations. 

    Without every day working Americans, there is not economy.

    Trump’s policies don’t help workers, families, or consumers, and they aren’t good for the economy

    #TrumpedUpEconomy
    #ForcedLabor #RepublicanForcedLabor #LaborCamps #MoneyTrumpsLives
    #BigBusinessFirst #AmericansLast #ProfitsAbovePeople #WealthBeforeNeed #BigDonersOverAmericanVoters #TrumpDonorsBeforeAmericanVoters