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>This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control Outside of the Polish martial law I don’t think my family ever risked arrest for walkin
by mikrl 4y ago
>This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control
Outside of the Polish martial law I don’t think my family ever risked arrest for walking to a cake shop as kids.
Cannot comment on the USSR, but I highly doubt the authorities did that kind of thing either outside of, perhaps, the holodomor.
- COGlory 4y agoI was more drawing analogy between how above reproach authority was (or at least how it was portrayed to me) than about whether or not children could freely explore.