The biggest export of the Soviet Union was reeducation camps

The Soviet Union was so (in)famous for reeducation camps that they had about 10 million prisoners at the height of the gulags. That is 1/16 of the total population of the Soviet Union, imagine the United States having 1/16 of its population in prison. The gulags were so big they had a whole team of people working on each camp and in fact had an official agency that was only dealing with these camps. 10 million prisoners in prison camps is not a good thing.