First Gulags Revival

[supercanuk]

 

Yah this reminded me of that First Gulags post a while back. Thought id share.

[sancco]

new world order

[HoboFactory]

Why is there there a flying saucer above the word "beneath" ??

[supercanuk]

Bahahah good question i didnt even notice it until you mentioned it.

[ecnarf]

You realize that was done tongue in cheek?

[supercanuk]

I didnt, but I guess I do now.

[randomlylinked]

Just curious, but do you know what the gulag is/was. Cuz I'm hard pressed to figure out what the gulag has to do with stuff like this. Thanks.

[no yu begin wher i end]

Gulags were the chain of labour camps in the former Soviet Union where (mainly) political prisoners were sent, I believe. At least that's what I could pick up from reading A Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich in English class.

 

The gulag reference comes from the Amnesty International report calling the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay part of "the gulag of our times." In connection with this poster and another one I posted in a thread about a month or so back, it's a sarcastic comparison of totalitarianism with the heightened sense of fear in the United States. (I know, this one is in England, but the other one was in the US.)