No worries, and to be clear the point you ended up making isn’t unimportant either - we shouldn’t hyper focus on the 95% statistic and thereby seem to acknowledge the lib idea that any actual “political prisoner” in the USSR was an innocent saint. Counter-revolutionary actions naturally can and should be punished (depending on severity) in a socialist society.
Yeah, good call. That was kind of my point, that most of them were criminals but it kind of got away from me there, thanks for clarifying!
No worries, and to be clear the point you ended up making isn’t unimportant either - we shouldn’t hyper focus on the 95% statistic and thereby seem to acknowledge the lib idea that any actual “political prisoner” in the USSR was an innocent saint. Counter-revolutionary actions naturally can and should be punished (depending on severity) in a socialist society.