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		at_a_remove on April 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) You're the first person in the thread to bring up work camps. How easily one can defeat a specter of one's own construction.

ch4s3 on April 18, 2022 [–]

That’s 100% what happened to political offenders in the USSR even after GULAG officially closed. Theses scientists may have gotten article 58, but I didn’t dig that deeply. There is no US parallel.

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