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In the fading days of the Soviet Union they put away dissidents in insane asylums where they were pressured into giving up their USSR citizenship and leaving fo
by iav 7y ago
In the fading days of the Soviet Union they put away dissidents in insane asylums where they were pressured into giving up their USSR citizenship and leaving for the West. While inhumane, no one ever got beaten or treated as poorly as the modern Russian police treats its opponents. That was partially why 1991 was a bloodless revolution, the USSR mostly abided by its own laws, minus the democracy part. I have a feeling history will judge the current regime worse than the Communists.
- samat 7y agoUSSR was not abiding it’s own laws. There was even a common saying by dissidents reading exactly ‘abide your own laws’ :(
- IWeldMelons 7y agoThe situation is actually quite a bit more subtle. The most "lawful" periods in the Soviet Union were during the Khrushchev and Andropov times. Brezhnev's period (esp. th last days of it) was a a complete mess, when the Soviet police acquired enormous power and felt hey can do anything the want, especially in Moscow. Yet KGB was indeed quite bit less dirty than FSB.