After Joseph Stalin created show trials and the gulag which persisted in the former Soviet Union until his death. At least where show trials are concerned. While the gulag system continued while not quite as draconian even today under Putin. China has decided to reinvent that system and seems quite proud of the whole horrible system. They have even brought back reeducation camps just to complete the triumphant.
China’s state broadcaster CCTV last week offered a look inside Xinjiang’s controversial internment camps.
In the 15-minute segment journalists visit the Hotan City Vocational Skills Education and Training Centre where they teach students Mandarin, China’s various legal codes, and job-relevant skills, according to a city official, reciting almost verbatim a description previously given in Chinese state media.
Students are shown learning cosmetology, baking, sewing, woodworking and more. The cafeteria is decorated with balloons and bunting, and all the dorms have air conditioning. One young woman tells an interviewer woodenly: “If I wasn’t here studying, I don’t even want to imagine where I’d be. Maybe I would have followed those religious extremists into a life of crime. The government and party found me in time and saved me.”
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