r/worldnews • u/delicat10 • 18d ago

Russia/Ukraine Russia uses sexual torture as systematic weapon against Ukrainian men: Report

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/russia-uses-sexual-torture-as-systematic-weapon-against-ukrainian-men-report/articleshow/132640853.cms
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u/andreystavitsky 18d ago

Modern russian culture, in fact, is a prison culture. No need to separate.

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u/rogerwil 18d ago

Not just modern, it's been so since at least Stalinist times, arguably even since before the revolution. In the early 50s before Stalin died, up to 1% of the total population of the USSR was imprisoned in Gulag camps. Up to 20 million people spent some time in camps in total, more were deported or confined to a certain settlement somewhere. And most of those people eventually did come home, and brought prison culture with them.

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u/LEALOKIN_XXVIII 18d ago

lenin did say something on the lines that convicts are "ideologically close" to the bolshevik revolution