Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Moscow court jails man over posts about military | DW News" video.

  1.  @dpelpal  It kept the USSR going economically. Convicts are cheap labour and labour conditions don't matter.
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  2. Prigozhin has special dispensation from Putin. Putin likes to keep the military on their toes. Igor Girkin may be in for a bit of tough love, however.
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  3. How is it apparent? You'd think they'd vote for Russia at the UN, yet they don't.
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  4.  @nbgoodiscore1303  The history of the USSR isn't your forte, I see. The infamous Gulag system was dismantled after Stalin's death. You may want to read up on it before you comment further.
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  5.  @nbgoodiscore1303  Reading comprehension isn't your forte either. Reread dpelpal's comment, to which I replied. If you're unable to follow the conversation, butt out.
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  6.  @nbgoodiscore1303  How come it's so hard for you to understand that Stalin's repression and the Gulag system provided the USSR with a plentiful supply of free labour? While it spelled sheer misery for the convicts, it did keep the otherwise woefully inefficient Stalin-era Soviet economy afloat. No one's claiming that the USSR still exists. You're taking reductio ad absurdum a tad too far.
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