To our Russian readers : The Tsar abolished judicial corporal punishment, which was applied at the village level. This was about 1861, when serfdom was ended. Russian peasants were skeptical, because punishment was taken out of their hands and away from their view. Russia transitioned to the centralized punishment model. Fast forward to the Stalinist era, and the doubts of the Russian peasants make sense. When punishment is centralized, as in the GULAG Archipelago, more oppression, injustice and abuse are then possible and likely.
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