There's enough similarity between what Hitler did and what Stalin did. But to say that socialism always leads to the Gulag is like saying that being a Unitarian or Quaker leads directly to torturing people on the rack in a Spanish Inquisition. Human thought, religion and ideology is always imperfect, and history shows that an extreme or fundamentalist position usually leads to the dead bodies piling up - whether it's fascism, marxism-leninism, or free market fundamentalism.
The socialized Norwegian energy industry was what I have in mind. No gulags or torture in Norway (unless you consider eating ludefisk cruel and unusual).They do deep water drilling in extreme environments, but have the world's strictest safety standards, unlike the cowboy crony-capitalist oil industry of the USA .
So were do they get their money and how do they make their money?
What are you doing here if you like their system so well? Do they allow private gun ownership?
Oh and would you agree that of all the "ism" that have killed people that socialism and communism have murdered the most?
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