If you can't understand the difference between a temporary life in an extermination camp and life under the East German or Polish communist regimes, there's no use arguing with you. They are lightyears apart in the degree of oppression suffered by the people there.
If you can't understand the difference between a temporary life in an extermination camp and life under the East German or Polish communist regimes, there's no use arguing with you. They are lightyears apart in the degree of oppression suffered by the people there.
One major difference between Nazi and Soviet concentration camps is that photos of the Nazi death camps (such as the ones you posted) were available for all the world to see in April 1945 but the estimated 12-20 million individuals that died in the Soviet Gulag system until Stalin's death in 1953 died as annonymously as the Nazis victims died prior to the arrival of Allied photographers at the German death camps.
On set of photos that did manage to come out were the photos of the Katyn Forrest Massacre where the Soviets massacred 11,000 Polish Army officers and then secretly buried their bodies in the Polish soil in 1940.
Whether or not a particular Pole would have been better off under Nazi or Soviet conquest depended on what social class that particular Pole belonged to and which social classes the Nazis and the Soviets wanted to exterminate.