The Soviet Russian system was true justice! Trial, conviction, execution. No appeals. No life imprisonment. No torture. Just a swift execution for a person who had forfeited his right to live. Clean, simple, and just!
This is a misrepresentation in more than one way. The Chikatilo case was unique. Not everybody was just taken out back and shot after trial, despite what anti-communist propaganda would have you believe. The Soviet Union DID have life imprisonment and shorter sentences, and they did have appeals. And the Soviet justice system wasn't perfect, though it also wasn't as bad as it's portrayed by anti-Soviet and anti-communist propaganda. No system is perfect. The Soviet justice system, like all justice systems, was run by human beings, and human beings are inherently fallible. There were miscarriages of justice in the USSR, as the Soviets themselves recognized (again, despite anti-Soviet propaganda claiming otherwise). Yezhov and Beria were executed for their abuses of power for instance, and throughout the USSR's existence there WERE people, people who were genuine communists, who struggled against the flaws in the Soviet system.
Anyway, i'm all for defending the Soviet Union, which does need to be rehabilitated and liberated from the anti-communist narrative of history, but this "the USSR was perfect" stuff just isn't a constructive or effective way to do it. If the USSR was run perfectly, it would still be with us as I type this, and unfortunately it's not.
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