[josinalvo]

> Perhaps the people who fled were the ones guilty of crimes mentioned in the article?

Yup. Lets trust the red terror system of justice

(do note: I have a quote from Russia, so, there is an important caveat there. Still...)

Martin Latsis, chief of the Ukrainian Cheka, stated in the newspaper Red Terror:

    We are not fighting against single individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. Do not look in the file of incriminating evidence to see whether or not the accused rose up against the Soviets with arms or words. Ask him instead to which class he belongs, what is his background, his education, his profession. These are the questions that will determine the fate of the accused. That is the meaning and essence of the Red Terror.

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's as tedious and repetitive as it is grandiose. Internet comments can't support meaningful discussion about such topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[trasz]

I'm not sure, I _think_ it's still a thing in China. But since the percentage of incarcerated population is lower, it affects fewer people.

[aspenmayer]

Forced labor is a form of slavery; it is yet to be abolished in America, and that is our collective shame as Americans.

Is it considered wrong to force prisoners to perform labor in China?