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class, thieves were "socially friendly" or "class allies" of progressives in the [[class war]] between "the haves and have nots". {{quotebox|The fathers of the Archipelago, having, in accordance with the Progressive Doctrine, multiplied these socially friendly elements beyond all rhyme and reason...How many citizens who were robbed knew that the police, didn't even bother to look for the criminals, didn't even set a case in motion, so as not to spoil their record of completed cases - why should they sweat to catch a  thief if he would be given only six months, and then be given three months off for good behavior? And anyway, it  wasn't certain that the bandits would even be tried when caught. After all, prosecutors2 "lowered the crime rate" - something demanded of them at every conference - by the curious method of simply quashing cases, especially if they foresaw that there would be many defendants. Finally, sentences were bound to be reduced, and of course for habitual criminals especially. Watch out there now .. witness in the courtroom! They will all be back soon, and it'll be a knife in the back of anyone who gave testimony! Therefore, if you see someone crawling through a  window, or slitting a pocket, or your neighbor's suitcase being ripped open - shut your eyes! Walk by! You didn't see anything! That's how the thieves have trained us - the thieves and our laws!

class, thieves were "socially friendly" or "class allies" of progressives in the [[class war]] between "the haves and have nots". {{quotebox|The fathers of the Archipelago, having, in accordance with the Progressive Doctrine, multiplied these socially friendly elements beyond all rhyme and reason...How many citizens who were robbed knew that the police, didn't even bother to look for the criminals, didn't even set a case in motion, so as not to spoil their record of completed cases - why should they sweat to catch a  thief if he would be given only six months, and then be given three months off for good behavior? And anyway, it  wasn't certain that the bandits would even be tried when caught. After all, prosecutors2 "lowered the crime rate" - something demanded of them at every conference - by the curious method of simply quashing cases, especially if they foresaw that there would be many defendants. Finally, sentences were bound to be reduced, and of course for habitual criminals especially. Watch out there now .. witness in the courtroom! They will all be back soon, and it'll be a knife in the back of anyone who gave testimony! Therefore, if you see someone crawling through a  window, or slitting a pocket, or your neighbor's suitcase being ripped open - shut your eyes! Walk by! You didn't see anything! That's how the thieves have trained us - the thieves and our laws!

The·thieves flourished because they were encouraged.<ref>''Gulag'', Page 422, 425 ''et seqq.''</ref>}}

The·thieves flourished because they were encouraged.<ref>''Gulag, Vpl. II'', Page 422, 425 ''et seqq.''</ref>}}

Elsewhere Solzhenitsyn documents how forced labor from Czarist times was brought into line with Progressive Doctrine.<ref>''Gulag'', page 76.</ref>

Elsewhere Solzhenitsyn documents how forced labor from Czarist times was brought into line with Progressive Doctrine.<ref>''Gulag, Vol. II'', page 76.</ref>

Solzhenitsyn goes into some detail how progressives deal with political opposition and dissenters in socialist re-education camps (gulags):

Solzhenitsyn goes into some detail how progressives deal with political opposition and dissenters in socialist re-education camps (gulags):