On: Don't shoot, I'm disabled

[enriquto]

I remember when I was a kid in the late 80s my father used to badmouth the Soviet Union for its lack of civil liberties. He told me many examples (all of them out of his head), about how bad was the life of the citizens under the soviet state.

I cannot remember any story as horrendous as those that I read in the linked article.

[tome → enriquto]

Maybe that's because the story in the linked article happens to a vanishingly small proportion of the populace but life under the Soviet Union was terrible for a huge proportion.

[swarnie_ → tome]

For it to happen at all is worrying. Western Europe is a demonstration of how to police a populas without shooting at them on a daily basis.

[tome → swarnie_]

Absolutely agreed, but that does not invalidate my comment nor validate enriquto's.