Anndee
on January 2, 2024
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SO WHO'S MORE LIKE PUTIN / COMMUNISTS? In his book on crime in the USSR, Valery Chalidze sums up the situation: [T]he new regime concentrated its pressive efforts on political opponents and class aliens.
Amid the crowd of real or supposed enemies of the regime, non-political criminals were still regarded as socially akin; the received shorter terms of imprisonment and served them in less severe conditions.
Those prosecuted for political crimes, however, might quickly find themselves in a political court where legal procedures were stacked against defendants. If convicted, the “political criminal” would often be sentenced
to years at a Gulag camp.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/valery-chalidze-soviet-dissident-forced-into-exile-dies-at-79.html
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