re: Actions.
So a system that murdered over a million human beings under abhorrent conditions is no different than one where, as the Red Cross say, a few prisoners were subjected to "humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, [and] use of forced positions." Not one death.
Fine. I think we're pretty much done here.
From this reference:
The total documentable deaths in the corrective-labour system from 1934 to 1953 amount to 1,054,000, including political and common prisoners; note that this does not include nearly 800,000 executions of "counterrevolutionaries", as they were generally conducted outside the camp system. From 1932 to 1940, at least 390,000 peasants died in places of labor settlements; this figure may overlap with the above, but, on the other hand, it does not include deaths outside the 1932-1940 period, or deaths among non-peasant internal exiles. The number of people who were prisoners at one point or the other is, of course, much larger, and one may assume that many of the survivors suffered permanent physical and psychological damage. Deaths at some camps are documented more thoroughly than those at others; note also that access to some data in historical archives is becoming more restricted again.