Have self-respect, spend effort and verify the numbers
Historical review of the work of other historians in their guesstimations of the deaths in the Soviet penal system vs what the Soviet internal archives actually said when revealed post 1991
https://hexbear.net/post/136521?scrollToComments=false
Historical review of the work of other historians in their guesstimations of the deaths in the Soviet penal system vs what the Soviet internal archives actually said when revealed post 1991 https://hexbear.net/post/136521?scrollToComments=false
Primary source on Soviet prisons from an american journalist and american penal system expert who actually went to them them in person https://hexbear.net/post/201947?scrollToComments=false
The latter paragraph is about This Soviet World and Russian Justice, I thought I’d add links to the full books if anyone is interested.