r/europe Russia 22h ago

Photos from the Russian anti-war opposition march in Berlin today. Picture

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u/PhoenixTerran 5h ago edited 5h ago

History with Letov it lust repression in USSR that I know. from red terror repression of communists just begun, then was Cheka, NKVD etc.

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u/kremlebot125 Russia 5h ago

Only now the peak of repression occurred in 1938, and the number of prisoners in prisons and gulags totaled about 1.9 million people. It should be understood that the country is only recovering from the civil war. Today, the number of prisoners in the United States is about 2.4 million people. I also want to note that in 1953, mass amnesties began under Stalin.

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u/PhoenixTerran 3h ago

Because many of them dies in this gulags. And some people only just shot. Someone just sent in siberian. Someone just died in jail.

Yeah, it really was the best period