Propagandist: Soviet gulags are better than German concentration camps - Break the Fake - TVP World

[Kyesha]

1. Not a surprise at all

This is what happens when a country never gets a chance to atone for and reflect on its most horrible parts of its history. After World War II, the Germans have apologized numerous times, taught the horrors of the Holocaust to its younger generations, and have admitted hundreds of thousands of refugees from places like Kosovo, Bosnia, and now Syria. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, told its citizens to shut up about the 20 million disappeared sons and daughters and husbands who were snatched up at night for doing nothing except owning a factory or possessing foreign currency. Following Stalin's death, there was hardly a chance to take a breath before Khrushchev waddled his way into a near-nuclear war in Cuba. Nobody could publicly utter a word about the gulags until the 80s. I'm no psychologist, but I'm pretty sure an entire nation not being able to publicly grieve can mess it up for generations.