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Originally Posted by NewNick
It is utter bullshit to suggest that religion is necessary for society to function. The soviets pretty much abolished religion had had exceptionally low levels of crime.
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Uhmm... They abolished religion for the most part. Then died a slow death and descended into complete misery. Great point you made there.
And they did not have "low levels of crime". They seemed to keep the prisons and gulags quite full. Full enough to bring the Soviet Union into the industrial age on the back of slave prison labor.They kept virtually no statistics on crime whatsoever and actively kept it hidden from the public.