The Perception Problem of the Soviet Work Camp

There's a very large number of groups you could be placed in. And so then, if you're motivated primarily by hatred and your desire is to produce as much mayhem as possible, you can find one group in which they're the oppressor. Even if there's no excuse whatsoever for the oppression, even if there's one dimension of your identity along which you're an oppressor, then you're grist for the Soviet work camp. That's exactly what happened.