Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself]

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Cake day: July 10th, 2024

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  • prison system (whose acronym was GULAG)

    Afaik not true. The average westerner may think so, but GULAG is an acronym for a specific part of the system.

    copypasted my earlier comment

    if you would consult the chart from chapter 10:

    The etymology of GULAG is: “the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”)” emphasis mine, as it corresponds directly to the above, specifically the camps under the O.G.P.U. These are where those with harsher sentences were sent, as seen in the chart (3-10 years)
















  • To my knowledge, the DPRK is the only socialist country that has implemented direct elections at all levels. Neither the Soviet Union (in its time) nor China have embraced a complete system of direct elections

    Since it is only a short excerpt, there may be some context missing. Or I may be misinterpreting it, I am putting particular importance on “complete,” there is some thing that the USSR didn’t do that makes him consider it not complete? But it seems to me to be incorrect, the soviets did have direct elections after the 1936 constitution?

    Instead of a Congress of delegates electing an Executive Committee, the supreme authority of every territory in the U.S.S.R. will now be a directly elected Supreme Soviet or Council. The citizens will directly elect their deputies not only to the local Soviet, but to the provincial and district Soviets, to the Supreme Council of their Republic, and to the Supreme Council of the U.S.S.R., which will replace the Congress of Soviets and the Central Executive Committee

    Soviet Democracy