“Uncle Joe” did the same thing with the masses sent to the Gulag.
Many of them were worked to death in the Kolyma goldfields, again to raise foreign cash to fund his industrialization program.
23 posted on 09/25/2020 10:19:59 AM PDT by M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")