Re:Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their chi...
by 331c8c71 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:18AM
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> There was no benign neglect in the soviet union. You were a gear in the system and if you failed to fill that part, you were liquidated or sent to a prison camp.
Like you would be sent to a prison camp in the 80s? Just stop...
Late soviet union was pure benign neglect.
Re:Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their chi...
by FpUser on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:34AM
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>"if you failed to fill that part, you were liquidated or sent to a prison camp."
I grew up in USSR. If you take late 70s and 80s (do not know how it was before) you would have to very actively open your mouth and be a dissident if you wanted to end up in prison camp even though it did not guarantee it. I left in 91 so have no idea how it later progressed from nearly absolute freedom at that time to what Russia has now with this maniac in power.
Most Russians in the Tzarist Russian empire could go years or decades without being actively oppressed — people out in rural villages could at least survive through benign neglect.
There was no benign neglect in the soviet union. You were a gear in the system and if you failed to fill that part, you were liquidated or sent to a prison camp.