The only two things that need to be said (which I’ll sum down to instead of paragraphs of explanation because @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml already answered) are;
1: “gulag” is used in English as a propagandist term, it just means Prison. They’re prisons, nothing more.
2: labour camps were popular at the turn of the century, every country had them. The United States’s labour camps were some of the most brutal, and even today after legislation made labour camps functionally a thing of the past, the US still runs them, and they’re still some of the most brutal.
The only two things that need to be said (which I’ll sum down to instead of paragraphs of explanation because @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml already answered) are;
1: “gulag” is used in English as a propagandist term, it just means Prison. They’re prisons, nothing more.
2: labour camps were popular at the turn of the century, every country had them. The United States’s labour camps were some of the most brutal, and even today after legislation made labour camps functionally a thing of the past, the US still runs them, and they’re still some of the most brutal.