• Avid Amoeba
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    3 hours ago

    I’m talking about other one-party communist regimes like the ones in the USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, East Germany, etc. Yes I’m aware they’re they’re not identical, including in rates of political prisoners. The one I’m from had relatively few.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      Not sure what you’re talking about then because after the dissolution of USSR and transition to a liberal capitalist regime both crime and incarceration shot up dramatically.

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        2 hours ago

        Originally I replied to this:

        Imagine having a Government that uses political prisoners as forced laborers.

        It was about political prisoners not general incarcerated population. The aforementioned regimes did hold political prisoners for obvious reasons.

        Yes crime skyrocketed after the fall of those regimes.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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          1 hour ago

          The US has plenty of political prisoners. Again, it’s not clear to me what basis there to suggest that USSR or China ratio being higher.

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            The US has plenty of political prisoners

            Yes.

            Again, it’s not clear to me what basis there to suggest that USSR or China ratio being higher.

            I don’t know if it’s higher I just think it’s not zero.