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To: GPS Info who wrote (112878)	8/7/2015 9:40:26 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219951

Like many dictatorships, crime in the Soviet Union was usually perpetrated by the State. There was surprising little "free-lance crime". When one of my Mom's cousins was doing his PhD in Leningrad, he happened to be walking down the street when a woman called out when a man snatched her purse. Virtually everyone on the street converged on the man with the purse from every direction, owing in large part due to the certainty he couldn't have a gun. He was sat upon until the police arrived and the woman got her purse back. Not helping to intercept a criminal was anti-state behavior, not in a fear-based way, but simply unacceptable behavior. Post-Soviet Russia is filled with guns and when someone calls out a crime, even the police tend to ignore them and mind their own business.