Engels fucking beard man

Because unlike Lenin, Stalin was very conscious of taking the moral high ground. The Soviet Union is the freest, most humanitarian country on earth, so when you liquidate people it's only because of their crimes as proved in a fair trial.

Needed a staple of legitimacy m8.

>>457134
If you tell something as story, an accusation, an explanation or an excuse people will question you. But tell the same account as a confession...

Somehow humans are compelled to see a confession as true

>>457134
In the PRC during the Cultural Revolution political prisoners were required not only to confess their immediate crimes, but also to tell their life story and analyze the way in which their upbringing brought them to commit their violations.
Communism doesn't only want to control your body, but also your soul. It's not enough that you obey, you must love Big Brother.

>>457134
>Why did they want people to confess?

It legitimised the party in front of the party. The foreign specialists and promparty trials allowed the ultraleft push to continue and authorised the purging of specialists and engineers holding back production (read: brutalisation of the proletariat).

Fitzpatrick, Ðilas, Conquest.

>>457414
I read a book about how they did that to a prisoner. It was actually constructive, for that guy at least.
his greentext
>be commie soldier
>sell secrets to KMT
>get caught and imprisoned
>constantly harassed to tell life story
>finally breakdown and reveal past
>born, but sold to a street gang
>street gang taught me pick pocket and steal, never learn life skills or work ethic
>join red army and sell secrets to KMT because easy money

after telling his story the book said he became more interested in self-improvement and lead the prisoners literacy program and was generally becoming a less shittier human being.

What is wrong with having people explain their crimes.

Maybe I am ok with it because I went to Catholic school.

>>458763
No, there's only something wrong with it if you are accustomed to the more modern strategy of wanting people to rot away in physical, intellectual, and emotional isolation in prisons for someone else's profit. Even the former Emperor got his shit together after his stint in the reeducation camps. For some reason wanting people to actually reform is 'wrong'.

>>460157

It's that it takes an enormous amount of resources, punishments which aren't acceptable in the West at this time because everyone is a massive pussy and prisoners have the right to not be uncomfortable, and then what do we teach them? No doubt the leftists will want prisons to become leftist reeducation camps so they can turn them into leftist soldiers.

Better to just gas them all, empty the prisons and start filling them up again, but somehow advocating that makes ME the monster.

>>458763
Because people get blackmailed into confessing fake crimes and then executed.