I think its fair to say that at that time concern for actual guilt or actual crimes wasn't a major factor in the Soviet 'justice' system. Edit: If you want som

I think its fair to say that at that time concern for actual guilt or actual crimes wasn't a major factor in the Soviet 'justice' system. Edit: If you want some nightmare material I can recommend Anne Applebaum's "Gulag: A History": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag:_A_History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag:_A_History Edit: I should correct myself there - of course, there were still those found guilty of 'normal' criminal offences and one of the recurring themes in accounts of life in the Soviet camps were the tensions between the criminals and 'politicals'.