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81·4 days agoIt was (a) a federal union of national republics and (b) besides the Karelian being incoporated into the Russian in 1956 it would have all it’s constituent republics in 1940
If you want to compare with NATO you should compare the Warsaw pact as a whole to NATO, not just the Soviet Union.
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This report combines yearend population counts from the annual published reports into a single table. [1988, page 1]
The total number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal or State adult correctional authorities was 1,182,169 at yearend 1996 [1997, page 1]
It is actually the population count not people sentenced.
3·11 days agoUhm excuse me that’s overcapacity. Europe has to ban CXMT products.
31·16 days agoSo 25%
Also:
The average rent in the USSR around 1970 was 2–3% of the average urban family budget. This compares to an average of 20–25% before the Revolution, and 25–30% in the USA in 1970.24
Albert, Szymanski. Human Rights in the Soviet Union. Zed Books. 1984. Chapter 5
stalin recriminalized it - which is his fault
This seems like Great Man theory. Was he really single-handedly imposing this? Or where there more to it?
And what’s the income in these cities? How much is said 200 of the average inhabitants income?
I’m reading Albert Szymanski’s Human Rights in the Soviet Union right now and they made massive changes. I would recommend it.
A case of Homosexuality. Feifer, George. Justice in Moscow. Simon and Schuster, 1964. pp 207–8
To return to the cases behind closed doors: There is an article in the code that I would have thought unnecessary; it deals with homosexuality.* Muscovites are so strongly heterosexual—so little titillating talk, so much real activity. One never sees obvious homosexuals in public places, and I had assumed that I would never see them in court. Russians seemed too healthy for that.
The exception proved the rule. Late one afternoon I came across it in a wretchedly damp, low-ceilinged basement room in the form of two elderly men, fifty-five and sixty-one, the first with a full eighteenth-century peasant beard, the other in high boots and a tunic. Insensibly drunk, they had exposed themselves on a bitter November day in a park and made some sort of contact with each other. They listened in deep embarrassment while the court found them guilty; but “considering their ages, their families, their honest confessions, and their promises of future good behavior,” it decided not to deprive them of freedom but merely to fine them 20 per cent of their salaries for a year.
The men sputtered thanks to the judge and left separately without exchanging a glance. A once-very-pretty, fortyish woman who heard the sentence with me shook her head incredulously. “I just don’t believe it. You mean they . . .? The two of them? Good God, what for?”* Article 121: Homosexuality.
Sexual relations of a man with a man (homosexuality) is punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of up to five years. Homosexuality committed by means of application of physical force, threat, or in relation to a minor, or by taking advantage of a dependent position of the victim, is punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of up to eight years.
That’s how it’s always been, look at pre-revolutionary russia same there.
The most american president ever to america, supported by the american ruling class: actually an agent of our enemy!
7·1 month agoordered the execution of a German deserter for “misinformation”, though it is unclear if this refers to Liskow or another German deserter
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Its old.