Kathryn, Judging by that quote, Bill Schulz still doesn’t get it about the Gulag. Here’s what he says:

“…Amnesty International understands the difference in magnitude between forcing millions into labor camps where tens of thousands starved, and illegally imprisoning and sometimes abusing prisoners in US detention…”

The Gulag was rather more than a place where “tens of thousands starved.” Even if one takes (1) the narrowest possible definition of the term Gulag (restricting it to the work camps of the Soviet corrective labour system) and (2) the most conservative calculations of the death toll within that system, the Gulag claimed at least a million lives in the twenty years up to Stalin’s death.

That’s one million dead who Schulz continues to insult.