This is very common in authoritarian governments. They did the same kind of thing in Pinochet’s Chile, for example.
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In the US, they do that today. Also if you're old
Citation?
My grandpa.
Solid source
Pretty sure America does that.
No the American secret police just makes them suicide with a bullet to the back of the head. Rip Gary Webb.
The Soviet Union at its height had the largest percentage of incarcerated individuals, more than double the USA's percentage of the population today. These were hard labor camps, too, where millions worked until they died.
this is only true for the stalin years i think.
in any case, living in a country without due process kinda sucks
Yeah it actually got better even before Stalin died, but yeah.
Link to source?
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Don't let this distract you from the fact that America and capitalism and the CIA are all bad and this is all ultimately their fault
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Oh you mean like they want to do with trump derangemnt syndrome? Yeah, it's out of the dictatorship playbook.
Only considered it?
May want to check out what's happening in USA and UK.
I live in the UK. Being against the UK government is not considered a mental illness.
Fucking Trump wants to deport citizens for disagreeing with him.
I'm sure this comments section is going to be thoroughly hinged
Yeah, waiting utill guys from lemmy@ml and lemmy@hexbear come here and start protecting the USSR.
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Sounds oddly familiar to "If you're against the online safety act you're siding with pedophiles."
They also didn't like genetics because it was anti Marxist-Leninist to them. They didn't like the concept of inherent traits.
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“Liberalism is a mental disease!”
A phrase often said by MAGAs. It’s no distance at all saying the same thing about nationalism.
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Russia does it too; transexual? Mental illness.
Did I forget to say they also forbid "mentally ill" people to have a driving permit?
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