>you don't like our country and/or government? well we'll throw you in prison, torture you and perform punitive mental treatment but we'll never EVER let you out!what kind of fucking retardation was this? wouldn't it be just easier to let all dissidents go or force them out of the country rather than wasting money on punishing them? not even the russian empire was like this
>>18437669The Tsar exiled the communists and guess what they did from abroad
>>18437669>not even the russian empireAnon, Russian Empire literally was ONLy country in Europe (a;ong with Ottoman Empire) what has passport system and closed borders before World War 1. And we don't mention other shit like punishments for trade abroad without Tsar's permission or fact that news from abroad were classified before 18th century .
>>18437674lenin only managed to do what he did because russia was crumbling from WW1 + he had support from the germans who wanted to destabilize russiaremove either one of those factors and he would've failed
>>18437677 (me)There is a very good book about old Russia - Russia Under the Old Regime.
>>18437677border control in the russian empire was pretty weak in various places. if you really needed to, you could easily sneak out through them. fucking millions of jews, ukrainians and poles came to america throughtout the 19th century, all from the russian empire. but of course you'd never mention that, now would you?
>>18437678Yeah and Soviet exiles got support from the European empires and later the US
>>18437669those prisons came with free labourrussian empire was exactly the same, katorga laid the ground for gulag system
>>18437680>Russia Under the Old Regimefucking every time
>>18437688do you really think fucking solzhenytsin and a handful of disgruntled soviet actors being "supported" by the west was the reason the ussr collapsed?
>>18437686>but of course you'd never mention that, now would you?Because my ancestors (peasants from central russia) didn't came to america or even fucking poland.>>18437693So? I don't care about his jewery, because book is brilliant work about russian mindset.
>>18437669It was so comically evil, I mean the British empire was evil but they only oppressed foreignersYoure supposed to do that not oppress your own damn citizens
>>18437757both imperial russia and ussr were in essence colonial countries
>>18437701>brainwashed by jew propaganda>proudly announces itperfect golem. at least you're honest about it though.
>>18437809>There was more continuity than you think. A lot of the habits and practices remained or reproduced themselves in a new ideological form.i mean there were still ways. as i already said, millions of ethnic minorities left the empire to work abroad in america.as a peasant you could escape to the don, where peasants where not given out from, and from there leave for some place elsei imagine the higher up classes had some of their own ways too.generally the empire just basically deliberately ignored it, with the idea "you don't like it? gtfo, just don't make a scene about it"but the soviets were fucking hellbent on keeping people inside, even building reinforncements on the borders, laying mines and shit. it took until the fucking 1970s when the USSR finally let the jews (that they hated, mind you) out of the USSR, but only to israel for some reason. like why do you even give a shit where they go? it's not like they're gonna come back or anything.the USSR was a uniquely barbaric country, barbaric in ways that even the russian empire wasn't
Breshnev era ussr had less arrests per year than modern day Britain
>>18437669How is this different from any other country?
>>18438608why are commienigs like you so retarded?
They threw the tsars away just to be enslaved by themselves.It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad and tragic.
>>18437677>what hasYou brown skin retard
