Try this for yourself. I used one of the common search engines for information on the Russia Subway system and slave labor. What I got back today, 2/16/2019, sitting on my couch in a suburb of Washington DC was amazing. The prioritized search return of articles was basically a diversion to articles either not mentioning slave labor or excusing communist excesses. Also, quite bizarrely, I searched for images of Soviet Slave Labor Camps which resulted in a signifciant amount of images depicting Nazi concentration camps. Why jewish prisoners in Nazi camps would be the search result of “Soviet Union Labor camps” is beyond me. It is not like there is a dearth of Gulag prison camp images in historical records. Also, only a single image of alexander solzhenitsyn was produced (at least after scrolling through multiple screen pages). Didn’t he win the Nobel Prize for Literature writing about this very topic?
I was left with the realization that the tech giants of Silicon Vallery are carrying on the great American tradition of covering up the ills of communism.
Don’t believe me. Read the following articles that appeared in the top search results.
The first result for a search on Soviet Subway Slave Labor returned the following: Soviet Subway
This is an odd choice sense there is no mention of the slave labor that built the subway system included in any of the 18 interesting facts of the subway system.
Another search for Soviet Slave Labor camps returned this article as a top result: It all depends on what you mean by slave labor…
I am going to play a little game with this internet cognitive dissonance. I am matching quotations from the above article with images found under very specific search queries where I explicitly requested, for example, “kids starving during the Ukraine famine Union.” If you don’t mention communism or Soviet Union in your search query, the results are more revealing. So, lets begin, from excerpts from the article and corresponding images from separate queries. Again, these were never combined in one search result. I couldn’t make up the following bullshit excuses and rationalizations in my wildest imagination.
“It depends on what is actually classified as slave labor. Russia under Joseph Stalin, had a vast population of not only workers in Gulag’s but also workers who had no choice but to work on large infrastructure projects. If those workers who worked on the Canal projects, Military Ordinance Factories and the building of cities, were actually viewed in a proper sense than a really staggering statistic arises of what forced labor actually produced.”
“One most overlooked fact is that, the Soviet State would make it a right to receive health care. It can only be stated that workers in the Soviet Union were definitely treated better than those in Czarist Russia, and they built a majority the infrastructure. For Prisoners in the Soviet Union not much improved. They also built much of the Soviet Union, but they did not build more than 15% of the over all infrastructure or industry.”
“For most Soviet Workers the conditions which they found themselves in after the 1917 Revolution were actually better from the perspective of work hours, shelter and weekly schedule. As the concept of an 8 hour work day became standard. Cost controls also came into place, and even though food production actually fell, the feeling of being able to buy more basic things was better. The Soviet System did not have to deliver much, as the system it replaced had simply not provided even basic necessities to average people. Thus, when Soviet infrastructure was built by masses of struggling people, this perspective should be looked at. For there were set hours of work and limitations of how much they were expected to do.”
“If a person was not politically oriented and did not speak out about the government, than from 1924 on wards the economy of the Soviet Union would actually triple the wages earned for an average Soviet Citizen compared to the Czarist Era, in only a matter of 15 years.”
“For most Soviet Workers the conditions which they found themselves in after the 1917 Revolution were actually better from the perspective of work hours, shelter and weekly schedule. As the concept of an 8 hour work day became standard. Cost controls also came into place, and even though food production actually fell, the feeling of being able to buy more basic things was better. The Soviet System did not have to deliver much, as the system it replaced had simply not provided even basic necessities to average people. Thus, when Soviet infrastructure was built by masses of struggling people, this perspective should be looked at. For t
“The fact that forced labor was used by Stalin before and after World War II, is a fact which really is not a good indicator of human rights nor any concern for the vulnerable in society. This comparison, however only seems to work with comparison to certain free nations.“
Why, on earth, would this article be in the top 5 results of searching for “Slave Labor in the Soviet Union”? What algorithm is making this possible? Do you believe now that there is a concerted effort to cover up the crimes of communism?