• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    3 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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      3 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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        2 hours 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.