IIRC Parenti covers this in Blackshirts and Reds. They were totally normal incarceration rates for globally recognized crimes.
After the fall of the socialist nations in Europe, the new reactionary governments let a whole lot of prisoners go, under the ideological assumption that they were political prisoners. Of course it turns out they were mostly rapists, murderers, thieves, etc.
IIRC Parenti covers this in Blackshirts and Reds. They were totally normal incarceration rates for globally recognized crimes.
After the fall of the socialist nations in Europe, the new reactionary governments let a whole lot of prisoners go, under the ideological assumption that they were political prisoners. Of course it turns out they were mostly rapists, murderers, thieves, etc.