the american administration had to sell the idea of conflict with the new communist powers in europe etc in post war europe to a people that wernt interested in more global engagement by equating them with the facist regimes they had just helped to topple
a systematic campaign was launched to hype the similarities between the two idealogies - the labeling is always irrelevant to me - its the end to which its used
In any case I used "gulag" in this example as I was watching a documentary on the curragh camps on TG4 the other day and one of the government said they et up "gulags", his word
IRA memebership wasnt the only reason they could intern and all internees wernt necessarily IRA members as far as I could see. Though to get out you had to sign a declaration saying you revoked all ties!
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