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Say what you will about the USSR. At least they had due process.
Yes but 1000000 trillion billion in the gulads!
(Don't mention that after the USSR fell, the numbers actually in the gulags was so low, westerner "intellectuals" thought the numbers were cooked. Don't mention that the US were executing suspected spies while the USSR was EXILING and often allowing back ACTUAL FUCKING SPIES AND TRAITORS.)
How does China fair on that?
afaik in china most times if you end up in a court room its because you’re already confirmed on camera to be breaking the law. so it may be hard to actually say, it could look like 10/10 people who see court get convicted but that could be because those people were caught on camera breaking the law. i know for shit like traffic violations and shit police typically wont even bother you. you just get a fine in the mail showing you the evidence of what you did
What's the procedure if not confirmed to break the law on camera then?
Almost everything is on camera in China.
Did the trains run on time?
Without the USSR, the Nazis would never have been stopped. I know the German trains always ran on time, though.
Not sure if you're ignorant to the expression.
USSR had plenty of arrests of dissidents with sham proceedings, resulting in horrible results for acts such as writing independent cultural poetry. The USSR had due process, like Auschwitz had due process.
I am not ignorant to the source of the expression. I'm pointing out how ironic it is that you're using an anti-Nazi expression against the country that ended the Nazis, the USSR.
Both are cases where the states repression of the people was covered up with trivial but famtastical descriptions of competence. Mussolini's trains weren't actually consistently on time. The CCCP was rife with abuse of due process, both abusing dissenters and bypassing the corrupt.