A HARD-LEFT student group bizarrely defended Stalin’s gulag camps Tuesday — saying they were far more “compassionate” than the “western, capitalist notion of prison”.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Plus Society at London’s prestigious Goldsmiths University later deleted the tweets after a huge backlash.
Furious academics and relatives of victims slammed the organisation's claims.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum said they were “not even close” to the truth.
Last night Goldsmiths said it had suspended the society. More than a million people died in the communist labour camps from the 1930s to 1950s.
The LGBTQ+ Society added: “The penal system was a rehabillitary (sic) one and self supporting… The aim was to correct and change the ways of ‘criminals’. If it couldn’t be done it 10 years, it couldn’t be done at all."
But the tweets were blasted by several Twitter users who claimed members of their family had been killed there.
One wrote: “You disgust me. My great grandfather was sent to Siberia to die in a gulag in the Soviet era.
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“You either have 0 education in history (a very poor reflection on your institution) or you know you are lying and are therefore quite evil."
A spokesman for Goldsmiths, University of London, said: “In this exchange, the language used was clearly inappropriate and we support the decision of the Students’ Union to suspend the student society with immediate effect.”
A message on the Twitter account read: “This is the official twitter of the LGBTQ+ Society of Goldsmiths University. We are protecting our tweets temporarily for the sake of safeguarding.”
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