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We need more disposable workers... time for another batch of 'dissidents' to be sent to GULAG! (infosec.pub)
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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Quite a few German POW from ww2 were only allowed home a decade later. And of course back home nobody knew whether they were still alive or not, families didn't even know if they'd fallen in the war or were send to a gulag. Many war widows clung onto the hope their husband would return someday for the rest of their live :(