From The Tom Woods Letter:
Last week journalist and Bernie Sanders supporter Sameera Khan posted the following list on Twitter, purporting to tell the truth about Stalin’s gulags — which weren’t really so bad after all!
– Two week annual holidays at home
– Marriage allowed
– Cabins for married prisoners
– Family stay with prisoners allowed
– Wages equal to common citizens
– Sending savings to family allowed
– No prisoner uniform
– No leg-irons and handcuffs
– Common living, no cells
– Freedom of movement inside Gulag area
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– Awards, rewards and reliefs for prisoners
– Education, music and theater for prisoners
– 80% cases decided by citizens’ courts
– Gulags were not celled-walled-barbed-wired jail buildings
– Gulags were far-away labor colonies
– Prison affairs managed by prisoners
– Maximum sentence 10 years
– Most sentences up to 5 years
– Sentence revoked on good conduct
– Employment after release
– Equal citizenship rights after release
– Prisoners allowed publishing newspaper
– Freedom of speech allowed
After being called on this, Khan had to retract:
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“I have just found out that the memes I shared re: Stalin’s gulags were inaccurate. My apologies to all those who were offended. I also in no way intended to make light of the tragic mass persecutions they took place under the Stalin regime and I again apologize for sharing this misleading and offensive information.”
Whoops! Just an innocent mistake!
She “in no way intended”…