For today's sad date, a little about the results of the activities of the "socialist legality bodies" during the reign of the beloved leader. The number of prisoners per 100 thousand inhabitants in the Russian Empire and the USSR in the years 1904-1954. (at the beginning of the year): 1904 - 66.
1913 - 118.
1917 - 110.
1936 - 780.
1938 - 1111.
1940 - 951.
1941 - 1500.
1950 - 1546.
1953 - 1410.
1954 - 776 It is interesting that following the results of almost ten years of fighting revolutionary terrorism, and even against the background of a doubling of the prison population, the rate of incarceration in the wild Strapia only recently approached the corresponding index in the USA in 1910 (121/100 thousand). Three decades later, thanks to the genius of Comrade Stalin, the decaying countries managed not only to catch up, but also to surpass them, almost 4 times, and by 1950, 7 times. Note: for the year 1917, population within government-controlled borders, excluding Finland[1][2]; for 1936-1938 excluding prisons, for 1936-1950 - without VTK; in 1940, taking into account persons incarcerated in state and federal prisons. Institutions, temporary detention centers, local correctional institutions as well as correctional facilities. Institutions for minors, in the United States there were 239 prisoners per 100 thousand population, in the years 1950 - 201. Sources in the comments.