[FreedomCalls]

Enslaving is what they did to everyone unfortunate enough to fall into their grasp.

I would call anyone in the Gulag a slave, sure, especially those in Kolyma. But the Nazi goal was to put every Russian or Ukrainian in a prison work camp and to repopulate the area with German families instead. The Russians only put those in the Gulag who dissented from the party line, which was a great number indeed. But as long as you never dissented, and walked on egg shells, you could still have a job, raise a family, etc. On the other hand, there's nothing a Russian could have done to prevent his eventual enslavement in a prison camp under a Nazi regime no matter how many SS butts he kissed.

[inquest]

I was referring to the enslavement of entire populations under Communism, whether inside or outside of a gulag. The fact is, whatever Hitler was capable of doing to the Russians, Stalin was capable of doing as well, and it's pretty likely that Stalin did about all he was capable of doing to them and still maintain any kind of economic base at all. The Nazis would still have been under the same constraints, given that it would have taken quite a long time to build up enough Germans to populate such an immense area.