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Conservatism tends to create threat to its citizen's lives by striving for money and power at the expense of its people. Stalin was a status quo thinker and during his reign in Russia places called the Gulags existed, they were camps positioned in the northern and north-eastern parts of Russia, in vast and uninhabited regions with no roads or sources of food, but rich in minerals and other natural resources. In order to mine, process and ship these resources inmates were forced to work in inhuman conditions. In spite of the fearsome climate, they were never adequately clothed, fed or healed if ill, nor were they given anything for the lack of vitamins. In some camps, the fatality rate during the first months was as high as 80%. It was estimated that in 1931-32, there were approximately 2 million prisoners in these camps, in 1933-35 5 million, and in...

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