Thoughts on my framework: The Gulag Museum Problem

Tl;Dr: I want to popularize the "Gulag Museum Problem" phrase as a way to introduce and discuss the issue of overrepresentation of the bad parts of historic socialism and a complete lack of representation of the horrors of historic and contemporary capitalism, and a frame of mind through which we can maybe challenge this.

This all starts from a discussion with my girlfriend, whom is from an ex-soviet state. She's def a leftie, very progressive in social and economic issues, but very unwilling to look past the darkest times of the Soviet era such as mass deportation of Koreans and Crimean Tatars, excesses during the Big Terror, censorship of some artists, etc. I'm a Soviet supporter because I think that even if costly mistakes and excesses did happen during collectivization in the 30s or during repression of fascist elements in the late 30s-40s, the USSR still saved Europe from nazism (saving tens of millions of lives from extermination and mass deportation through the rapid industrialization that defeated nazism and eliminated hunger).

Ultimately, why do I support Socialism even if these mistakes happened? Because, by almost every metric possible (including life expectancy, child mortality, education rates, wealth inequality, evolution of purchase power, access to sports and art, access to healthcare, university enrollment rates, proportion of women and ethnic minorities in positions of political power and highly trained positions, employment rates, access to housing, worker representation in workplace and economy, workplace safety, urban planning and availability of public services, public transit, lack of imperialism and unequal exchange, support to emancipatory anti-colonial movements and protection of worker movements in other countries such as Vietnam, Cuba, Korea, and almost the entirety of Africa and South America... the list goes on and on and on and on and on), Actually Existing Socialism was just measurably, undeniably better than any other system we've had.

So, we were checking out some material from the Gulag Museum and the Memorial society (Russia), and I was thinking of the hard balance between actually learning from past mistakes and giving them the relevance they had through such institutions, but also how not to allow these institutions from becoming anticommunist sentiment sources, and I think I reached a good conclusion, which I call "The Gulag Museum Problem".

My problem lies not in the existence of a Gulag Museum. I think that framing and exposing failures of socialism in a correct and historically materialist way can be a great method of learning from the past in order to do better attempts at the future. I think the problem is the lack of comparison and such propaganda with regards to capitalism. I actually realized I don't have a problem with the existence of a Gulag Museum: I have a problem with the non-existence of 10 bigger museums dedicated to the horrors of capitalism, imperialism and fascism that Socialism saved people from. The problem lies not in the existence of propaganda critical to socialism especially if it comes from a legitimate attempt at improving things in the future, the problem lies in the overwhelming overrepresentation that is done of it in comparison with the true HORRORS that capitalism generates everyday. We need a Gulag Museum, but for every such museum, we need TEN MUSEUMS dedicated to Generalplan Ost, European colonialism, Israeli settler colonialism, American extermination of natives, contemporary exploitation of the global south, support of fascism by capitalist governments, Italian and Spanish fascist repressions, outright society-destroying wars such as ... and to frame all of those as diametrically opposed to Socialism, because they are.

This post ofc has to do with my previous post on my annoyance at the popularization in the West of "Bella Ciao"