In this March 25th story over at the Daily Mail titled "Care To Visit The Gulag, Comrade?" they report that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government are giving museum-style makeovers to some of the Soviet Union hell-holes where prisoners were executed, tortured, starved and frozen to death during the 1930's through the 1950's.

With the Perm-36 gulag one of the first to be revamped and being glorified to "reinforce a new narrative that Joseph Stalin was an 'effective manager' who made the Soviet Union great", their story reports that such gulags were built "to house the ideological enemies of socialism", of whom Stalin effectively 'managed' to slaughter millions. [Full article]

Another blip in what appears to be subtle yet rampant discrimination levied against certain American citizens has emerged on the social radar. As reported recently here, there appears to be another scoring system—other than credit scores—which is not only encouraging but mandating private companies to withhold their regular services from certain consumers.

Sometimes referred to as a “security score,” this rating system trumps excellent credit and has resulted in numerous Americans being denied the ability to transact with Western Union, eBay and various other companies. [Full article]