Those numbers are really not very scary. They sound like…pretty normal incarceration rates? And it’s hard to say that the commies were big evilbads when their execution count is less than 250 people. I have a funny feeling those 250 or so folks were executed for something that rhymes with “Yahtzee collaboration.”
Just so, so much anti-communism is just completely ignoring context of everything. It’s so easy to spot, and so frustrating how so few people in the west ever actually do.
IIRC Parenti covers this in Blackshirts and Reds. They were totally normal incarceration rates for globally recognized crimes.
After the fall of the socialist nations in Europe, the new reactionary governments let a whole lot of prisoners go, under the ideological assumption that they were political prisoners. Of course it turns out they were mostly rapists, murderers, thieves, etc.
For the fun of it, I just checked current incarceration numbers. It is about a 20000/per year. To be fair Czech population was lower back then (although I am not sure if they are not counting Slovakia as well, as they were one country) but still just, 200000 is pretty low for 40 years of “totality”.
Those numbers are really not very scary. They sound like…pretty normal incarceration rates? And it’s hard to say that the commies were big evilbads when their execution count is less than 250 people. I have a funny feeling those 250 or so folks were executed for something that rhymes with “Yahtzee collaboration.”
Just so, so much anti-communism is just completely ignoring context of everything. It’s so easy to spot, and so frustrating how so few people in the west ever actually do.
IIRC Parenti covers this in Blackshirts and Reds. They were totally normal incarceration rates for globally recognized crimes.
After the fall of the socialist nations in Europe, the new reactionary governments let a whole lot of prisoners go, under the ideological assumption that they were political prisoners. Of course it turns out they were mostly rapists, murderers, thieves, etc.
no context
only 100 gorillion holodomurdered
For the fun of it, I just checked current incarceration numbers. It is about a 20000/per year. To be fair Czech population was lower back then (although I am not sure if they are not counting Slovakia as well, as they were one country) but still just, 200000 is pretty low for 40 years of “totality”.