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Dictatorships can be quite a mess when it comes to enforcing laws unrelated to keeping power. These laws tend to turn onto soft of weapon to be used or not depending on whether you want harass someone or not.

This happened in both Nazi system and Communist system. Both were high corruption a lot of petty crime normalized society (and a lot of other petty crime severely punished depending who done it and what was done).




I think there’s a reasonable argument that street-level drug possession crimes during the “War on Drugs” had similar properties/effects.




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