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I'm in the part of Losurdo's Stalin book where he's comparing gulags to US and Nazi concentration camps. The US south for example had death rates of over 50% year after year after it was instituted, in peacetime, for nearly all black inmates. Nazis had similar rates for jews and leftists. Gulags, nowhere even close, except during the food shortages during ww2.
Basically outside of the high death rates, the biggest difference was the reason for imprisonment and path to rehabilitation. In the gulags, prisoners were almost all petty criminals and white soldiers, with all of them being seen as potential future comrades, and usually released after a short time. The nazis and US are racial supremacist states that stack their prisons full of specific ethnic groups and undesirables, with no possibility of rehabilitation, and where you are worked to death and replaced by more.