BECAUSE GOING TO VALLEY FORGE, WHILE YOU'RE PUTTING YOU POLITICAL OPPONENT IN JAIL FOR LIFE LIVES AND BREATHS FREEDOM?
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; they 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-chal
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