They’re a state media from Qatar; Pro-Palestine, Anti-Imperialist, usually (unfortunately) Anti-LGBT.

Provides World and Middle East coverage primarily but also I’ll see African (normally northern African) and SEA coverage as well.

I view it in the way as RT or CGTN, use it be aware of developments from a anti-imperialist POV and conduct my own research from there.

Additionally they, like RT and CGTN, also have RSS feeds for news apps. 👍

Aaand this is particularly why I have a separation between my lefty lemmygrad account and my general use account. Don’t need to be witch hunted from other instances because of some liberal mod.

Gulags were a continuation of the Tsarist Katorgas. The katorga camps weren’t some vacation.

They were starved of resources, employed forced labor for the empire, and inmates could be sentenced there for anything from common crimes to revolutionary beliefs (even common liberalism).

From the turbulent times post-revolution to post-WW2, the Gulags were a tool of their era to keep the country afloat while handling counter revolutionaries, actual Nazis, and common criminals.