USSR Criminal Code of 1926 vs. Canadian Criminal Code of 2023

In the Criminal Code of 1926 there was a most stupid Article 139 — “on the limits of necessary self-defense” — according to which you had the right to unsheath your knife only after the criminal’s knife was hovering over you. And you could stab him only after he had stabbed you. And otherwise you …

Communists putting the state above the individual? Say it isn’t so!

Here is what our laws were like for thirty years–to 1947: For robbery of the state, embezzlement of state funds, a packing case from a warehouse, for three potatoes from a collective farm–ten years! (After 1947, it was as much as twenty!) But robbery of a free person? Suppose they cleaned out an apartment, carting …