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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I watched some 60 Minutes segments on these labour camps. They seemed as bad, if not worse, than the death camps the Nazi's kept the Jews in. People visit Auschwitz and say "I can't believe that humans actually treated other humans like this" completely unaware that similar camps exist TODAY. This should be front page news and become common knowledge, but most people don't know. Or perhaps we don't want to know.
If the Holocaust was contained within one country and Germany had stayed within its own borders, I'm not sure anyone would have had the guts to invade on humanitarian grounds.
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Up into the late 90's the labor camps in Russia that were put up for tree clearing was a sought after position for North Korean workers because they were paid over 5 times more then any job in North Korea 400 won per month versus about 70.
People were bribing communist part officials with T.V.'s (about 400 won) and cash to get assigned to those positions.
The govenment took nearly half of your pay in taxes but you were still making 3 times as much as the best paid factory workier.
Things started to change when it was realized that a lot of North Korean's would get into Russian camps and then flee for the nearest South Korean or American consulate.
I think now they send prisoners from labor camps to work in Russia.