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Being homeless, jobless, or quitting your job without permission is a ticket to GULAG, comrade! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Explanation: Despite the Soviet claim of having eliminated joblessness and homelessness, the awful truth is simply that such matters were an issue for arrest during the Stalinist era, and that, compounding this in the data, local authorities would often badger caught homeless folk to simply move on to the next municipality's problem (and arrest statistic) so that they'd have better numbers to report up the chain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

This not specific to USSR, America uses similar tactics against out homeless population