What an incredibly thoughtful comment. It's funny that you mention the gulag as many referred to these detention camps as like them. I haven't read the gulag Archipelago but I read a day in the life of Ivan Ivanovich which is one of my favourite books of all time and I recommend it to my students.

One of the problems were these detention centres is that they had contractors in as security so the possibility of brutality was not as well monitored as it should have been. They also had women and children in these camps, some of which were born in captivity and had spent their lives there in terrible conditions. How on earth our government could criticize any other regimes I do not know.

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