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I'm talking about other one-party communist regimes like the ones in the USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, East Germany, etc. Yes I'm aware they're they're not identical, including in rates of political prisoners. The one I'm from had relatively few.
Not sure what you're talking about then because after the dissolution of USSR and transition to a liberal capitalist regime both crime and incarceration shot up dramatically.
Originally I replied to this:
It was about political prisoners not general incarcerated population. The aforementioned regimes did hold political prisoners for obvious reasons.
Yes crime skyrocketed after the fall of those regimes.
The US has plenty of political prisoners. Again, it's not clear to me what basis there to suggest that USSR or China ratio being higher.
Yes.
I don't know if it's higher I just think it's not zero.
But the people above you didn't suggest zero, they suggested the officially reported numbers. Earlier it sounded like you were going to make an argument as to why Chinese numbers are more likely to be under-reported than USA numbers.