ABSTRACT
Children’s Ditty Low crime rates in the Soviet Union were not the result of a superior police. Rather, the Soviet militia was a central component of an entire system of social, political and economic controls that reduced the possibilities for crime commission in the USSR. The militia enforced measures that restricted individual mobility, removed recidivists from major urban centers and kept released offenders under surveillance. Rather than find panaceas for crime, the authoritarian Soviet state simply created a unique geography of crime in the country, together with a massive imprisoned population which, in actual numbers and on a per capita basis, exceeded that of other industrialized societies.1
