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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month 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.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month 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.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

But the people above you didn't suggest zero, they suggested the officially reported numbers. Earlier it sounded like you were going to make an argument as to why Chinese numbers are more likely to be under-reported than USA numbers.

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