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That's not entirely true; criminality was very high in USSR as well, even though it was swept under the rug, and USSR as a country was built in large part by cr
by golergka 4y ago
That's not entirely true; criminality was very high in USSR as well, even though it was swept under the rug, and USSR as a country was built in large part by criminal syndicates and structures that were victorious in crime wars of chaotic 1920s. Most of 1930s NKVD came directly, or were coordinated by, former gangsters, starting with Stalin himself.
- watwut 4y agoCrime skyrocketed in 1990 as state lost power, as people lost jobs and quality of life went down for a lot of them. In Russia even more then in satelite republics. That is true both in statistics and in experience of living there. The mafia bombing attacks were the thing of 1990ties and after. They were not a thing before. They are not a thing now, it calmed. People did not even locked doors prior 1990 in quite a lot of places. Things started to be stolen they started to lock. 1920s is extremely far in history. There was whole WWII after that. There were purges after that. So much happened and power changed hands so many times in between, that it does not matter all that much. Claim that criminality was comparably high in USSR is false.