America has gulags
What is a gulag? It is a prison where forced labour happens. America has the largest prison population on earth, and forced labour happens in American prisons. In Soviet gulags, the majority of the people imprisoned were your standard criminals (murderers, rapists etc) and literal Nazis. So why then, do Americans point to the gulags as an atrocity when they have been known to put you in prison and subject you to forced labour just for smoking some pot.