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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
Because in Russia you can get away with most things - Just don't talk shit about the people in charge - It's still the case in many ways...
The prisoners under Stalin where mainly political.....
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We are talking about bloody Stalin's ages. Believe me, during that period in Soviet Union you would not get away even if you stole a handful of wheat from the field. Go read Soviet history and you'll see that most of prisoners were not political. The one could get a death penalty even for buying/selling of the foreign currency. It was a real strict time, so nobody got away even for lesser crimes (e.g. homosexuality was a crime in the Soviet Union). And even then, the number of prisoners was not as big as in the World's freest country nowadays. So I have to repeat my question: how come?
Now as about the modern Russia.
There is no prison time for a tax evasion for private persons (the companies is a different thing).
A drunk sex is not considered as a rape here, because every person is responsible for itself even when drunk - doesn't matter if you doing sex, robbery, murder or driving a car. If you can't control yourself, just don't drink.
We have very light punishments for economical crimes. Here you can't get a prison time for using of insider information when playing on forex - usually you'll lost your job and will be fined, but not imprisoned like Raj Rajaratnam or Jeffrey Skilling.
You won't get a prison time for doing a small business (e.g. taxi service, selling of food, some goods etc) w/o registering as self employed person in the tax office.
You won't be shot dead or get a prison time for telling "fuck you" to a police officer.
etc...
On the other hand, you won't get away with a murder, robbery, theft, beating someone or a rape (I mean a forced sex, not a drunk one). Oh... we also have no death penalty here. Does it count?