America: land of the free!

And know that, even adding probation to the prison numbers doesn't tell the whole story either. Two words: asset forfeiture.

Hardly if ever read about the state stealing the property of its citizenry, unless of course it's the Nazis stealing from jew.

Do we get to know the number of people dead from these asset forfeitures? Of course not. Remember we're talking about people losing their homes, their farms, their means of making a living in many cases.

Forced collectivization in the Soviet Union was blamed for millions of deaths. I think that if we actually bothered to look at those numbers closer we'd find that they're exaggerations and that when compared to our own numbers you'd see parity between the two regimes.