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I’m always amused whenever I watch a movie or show and it depicts Russian prisons as being gulags deep in the isolated snowy mountains, run by ex-KGB warlord gangsters, and the prison wardens force you to fight other prisoners to the death for punishment.
It may or may not be the truth, but all I know is that I live in the freedom republic of the US and people with a big smile on their face joke about you getting raped in prison, then you turn on the news and see news about mass graves in the most racist states that go uninvestigated, and people get locked up in solitary if the wardens are in a bad mood after feeding you rotten food and raping you if you’re a woman.