993 Gulags are scars, but they cannot be taken as concomitant inevitable evils of Communism/Marxism/Socialism. Lenin, Stalin and Mao might have failed. Yet Marxism cannot be irretrievably buried without further experimentations

Here is a link to : Click here to go to https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/my-life-in-a-gulag-the-horror-of-stalins-prison-camps/. . The title of the news report is: A survivor on desperate hunger, the fight to survive – and why she fears Russians just want to forget. Author's name is: James Bartholomew. Name of the newspaper, in which it appeared: Spectator.co.uk. The narrator in the Author's interview, Tatiana, clearly depicted the horrendous atrocities that took place during the Stalin's Rule. Tatiana herself was born in the prison. Her twin brother, who was also born in jail died in jail, owing to "Lack of clothes, lack of food, lack of medicine". An allocation of 140 gms. of bread, for the whole family-- consisting of one mother and two children. Her father was serving two ten year terms of sentences. At the end of the second term he was expecting a release. But he was again sentenced to a third ten year term. Hearing about it, her father died out of depression. When Tatiana was six, she and her mother were released. After growing up, Tatiana worked in State Bank of USSR, for 36 years, and retired. She was proud of her service in Bank. Probably, scared, she never shared her past history with anybody.

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Click here to go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag, and study the history of Gulags in the erstwhile Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.).. The following quotes from Wikipedia.org gives a reasonably good interpretation of what took place in Gulags during the Erstwhile Soviet Regime, particularly that of Stalin.

"...Even more broadly, 'Gulag' has come to mean the Soviet repressive system itself, the set of procedures that prisoners once called the 'meat-grinder': the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths.

The word Gulag was not often used in Russian — either officially or colloquially; the predominant terms were the camps (лагеря, lagerya) and the zone (зона, zona), usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps. The official term, "corrective labor camp", was suggested for official politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union use in the session of July 27, 1929.

ybrao-a-donkey's personal perceptions which are not intended to be imposed on others

Gulags need not result from Rule of Proletariat (Workers' Rule). Unfortunately Workers' Rule, was not experimented in USSR or China, or the East Europe. In the name of 'Dictatorship of Proletariat', they have perpetrated, (and are perpetrating) heinous dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. In Dictatorships and Totalitarian Reigns there will be no Rule of Law. There will be no place for Natural Justice and Equity. Coteries rule the roost. Sycophancy is recognised as Efficiency and Effectiveness. Dictators entertain sycophants because, they cannot survive and feel comfortable amidst knowledge, virtue and wisdom. Ignorance of Workers is a bliss for cunning leaders who get transmogrified into whimsical Tyrants, supported by their coteries.

Vocabulary help for the verb 'transmogrify' and the noun 'transmogrification'

transmogrify (third-person singular simple present transmogrifies, present participle transmogrifying, simple past and past participle transmogrified)

(transitive) To completely alter the form of.

(intransitive) To completely alter one's form. Related Link: Click here to go to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transmogrify

Coteries not only help the first leader to become a tyrant, but also they will / can kill their own creation 'the tyrant' or convert him into a manikin to present him as a figurehead, for the atrocities perpetrated by him. Lenin seems to have been made into a dictator and a tyrant by his successor Stalin. Embalming and Preserving the dead body of lenin in a special mausoleum, naming cities as 'Leningrad', erecting huge statues all over the Empire, all these seem to be strategies and techniques adopted by coteries and sycophants. Stalin's coterie members and successors too seem to have followed the same methods.

Who transmogrified Mao Ze Dong into a Dictator of China?

Propaganda campaigns made Mao Ze Dong a Hero, and dictator. Landlords were oppressing and repressing Chinese peasants and laborers. Propaganda presented Mao as a God. Poor too started believing that he was a God. They thought that Mao had solutions for their poverty, but Mao had his own set of ambitions. Initial excess obedience to the decrees of dictators can lead to their taking the people for granted, and make them impose more orders, making the lives of people not only more miserable, but also make them subject to detentions without trials, tortures in prisons and labor-camps (gulags).

SO CALLED DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THOSE OF EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA, and ANZ, CAN ALSO BREED TYRANTS

Who created Guantanamo Prison Camp? United States of America, with tacit co-operation of Cuba.

Here is a quote from the Wikipedia.org, from which the above image was obtained. Click here to go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp, and study the 21st Century Gulags in our so-called Democratic Iconic countries.

"...At the time of its establishment in January 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the prison camp was established to detain extraordinarily dangerous people, to interrogate detainees in an optimal setting, and to prosecute detainees for war crimes. In practice, the site has long been used for indefinite detention without trial. ..."

Current and former detainees have reported abuse and torture, which the Bush administration denied. In a 2005 Amnesty International report, the facility was called the "Gulag of our times." In 2006, the United Nations called unsuccessfully for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to be closed.

Something which fails because of some gross misuse by the pioneers and harbingers, need not be condemned into proverbial Biblical hells. In Biblical hells, there may not be resurrections and retrievals. According to Indian mythologies and scriptures, a person's condemnation to a hell will not be eternal and perennial. As soon as the effects of past evil acts/sins (called 'pApa karma') get exhausted, the suffering souls get cleansed, and will have to face a rebirth. In the same manner, a person's enjoyments in heavens are not intended to be eternal and everlasting. They will only be transient to the extent that as soon as the effects of their virtuous acts (called 'puNya karmAs') get exhausted, they have to move to hell (if not already undergone through), or else will have to be reborn on Earth.

This yb-donkey is not a believer in the concepts of virtues or sins (they are difficult to define), and the existence of heavens and hells. This example is given just to indicate that nothing is condemnable for ever. Re-experimentation is possible, while trying to prevent repetition of past mistakes. Marxism cannot be abandoned because for highly and densely populated countries, Capitalism and Neo Liberalisms cannot provide solutions of EQUALITY.

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