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From Dennis Pragar, on Townhall.com
Sorry if someone posted this already...I'm in the middle of a move and life is crazy...I'm on an absolutely terrible dial-up connection so I can only read a little bit of conversation before I go mad and have to disconnect!
Sorry if someone posted this already...I'm in the middle of a move and life is crazy...I'm on an absolutely terrible dial-up connection so I can only read a little bit of conversation before I go mad and have to disconnect!
So, for the record, here are some comparisons between the Gulag and Guantanamo, courtesy of David Bosco and published in The New Republic:
Individuals detained: Gulag -- 20 million. Guantanamo -- 750 total.
Number of camps: Gulag -- 476 separate camp complexes comprising thousands of individual camps. Guantanamo -- five small camps on the U.S. military base in Cuba.
Reasons for Imprisonment: Gulag -- Hiding grain; owning too many cows; need for slave labor; being Jewish; being Finnish; being religious; being middle class; having had contact with foreigners; refusing to sleep with the head of Soviet counterintelligence; telling a joke about Stalin. Guantanamo -- Fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan; being suspected of links to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
Red Cross Visits: Gulag -- none that Bosco could find. Guantanamo -- regular visits since January 2002.
Deaths as a Result of Poor Treatment: Gulag -- at least two to three million (Bosco understates). Guantanamo -- no reports of prisoner deaths.