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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
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.
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Dumb point.
The soviet system failed because it lost an economic race against the west. Not because of any kind of issue around crime and deviance.
The point I made was in response to shap suggesting that religion was essential for society to function. (otherwise the poor would steal from the rich)
It is well documented that crime rates have soared in post communist societies, as have congregations.......