tell me you'd survive this without a jacket

''work'' ha ha

@Mitch You would probably find it difficult to survive in that kind of environment, but the average Eastern European at the time certainly wouldn't.

Who said Siberians don't wear jackets?

Siberians do

@Advocatus Diaboli Exactly.

that's bullshit. most Russians lived on the western end of Russia, around the areas of Moscow.

not Siberia.

you think they gave gulag prisoners adequate clothing?

no

Yeah they did

dosent matter

cold is nice

oh wow, so the really bad gulag camps that everyone hears about are for like Nazis and shit.

they'd make good iceblocks than for the starving citizens

serious criminals.

they were for enemies of the state, and prisoners

criminals

@Meta You do realize that it can get up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Siberia during the summer, right?

I'd like to go to siberia somday

i call bullshit @Deleted User

@Mitch You're an idiot.

is that supposed to be a good thing?

that means they have blazing heat as well.

what about the NKVD weren't they pretty harsh?

and didn't a lot of communists who apposed Stalin get considered 'enemies of the state'

@ajsbeast they weren't real communists. they were Trotskyists.

@ajsbeast You're asking for a subjective value judgement.

if you were a "Trotskyist" or someone trying to overthrow the communist rule you also counted as an enemy of the state

the only cases of siberia getting warm is not the norm

''siberia getting warm is not the norm''

@Mitch It is universally warm in Siberia during the summer, and it hardly ever gets below 70 anywhere in that region.

sure its not

why'd he run Trotsky out, even if he wasn't that bad of a guy, I still kinda liked Trotsky more.

wouldn't opposition just be a chance to show the people why you where correct.

Trotsky was an ugly Jew.

he deserved an icepick.

Trotsky probably would of grabbed his supporters and taken his position back

look at his face, bro. I would've had him killed, too.

Mother Russia wills it.