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It was happening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city#Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city#Russia

• int_19h 4y ago
  Closed cities were a thing, but they weren't prisons. And "you would end up in the forest with a bullet in your head" certainly wasn't a thing from the 60s on.
  • thodin 4y ago
    Prison for your political view was a common thing until about 1986. And a lot of people died there.
    • int_19h 4y ago
      Forced institutionalization would be far more common than prison for political dissenters in 1970s already.