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Originally Posted by August
Was it also US culture when your country murdered millions of your own people by starvation and working them to death in your gulags? Was it US culture that poisons dissidents and journalists with radioactive material?
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Ahh, yes, Epstine killed himself.
As to the other things - not exactly, the use of camps and the practice of sending convicts to colonise far away places with harsh climates were more of the British invention that we kept going into 1950s.
Starvation was sadly a regular thing back then (Russian Empire had historically significant problems with crop yields and regular famines), but in Soviet case it was reinforced by mismanagement related to industrialisation (the decision to feed workers in cities at the expense of farmers) and was widespread across all the main grain producing Soviet republics (ie RSFSR).