These elites empower [[criminal]] gangsters and hoodlums to keep opposition in check. Because private ownership is illegal in favor of a [[collective]], prisons are emptied of anyone convicted of a property crime. This criminal element is the base of the communists' political power to destroy [[democracy]]. Political opposition is outlawed. Having rejected the culture and habits of the old regime as unjust, many of the worst violent offenders are released from prison to become enforcers for the corrupt ruling elite.<ref>Although the [[Nazi]] regime was not a communist regime, it borrowed much from the [[Bolshevik]]s. The [[Einsatzgruppen]] or mobile death squads were recruited from convicted murderers and mental hospitals.</ref> | These elites empower [[criminal]] gangsters and hoodlums to keep opposition in check. Because private ownership is illegal in favor of a [[collective]], prisons are emptied of anyone convicted of a property crime. This criminal element is the base of the communists' political power to destroy [[democracy]]. Political opposition is outlawed. Having rejected the culture and habits of the old regime as unjust, many of the worst violent offenders are released from prison to become enforcers for the corrupt ruling elite.<ref>Although the [[Nazi]] regime was not a communist regime, it borrowed much from the [[Bolshevik]]s. The [[Einsatzgruppen]] or mobile death squads were recruited from convicted murderers and mental hospitals.</ref> |