"Sergei Lebedev, the Chairman of the Association of Independent Advocates in Leningrad at the time, argued that the steady escalation of criminal penalties for drug use was 'indicative of the Soviet authorities' resignation to their complete inability to solve drug problems in a constructive and humane way'." (Wikipedia).
Yes it did. Increase was involved with growing liberalisation of USSR and allowing more and more culture from the west. This do happen when you have imperialist powers and capitalist class using and promoting drugs against working class. You can compare to what happened in all socialist states after system change. Better would be looking at modern China and hundreds of millions of opium addicts in it. Wait, there aren't hundreds of millions opium addicts there now, i wonder what happened after 1949, surely Mao just didn't forbid them their fun?
Did it?
"Sergei Lebedev, the Chairman of the Association of Independent Advocates in Leningrad at the time, argued that the steady escalation of criminal penalties for drug use was 'indicative of the Soviet authorities' resignation to their complete inability to solve drug problems in a constructive and humane way'." (Wikipedia).
Yes it did. Increase was involved with growing liberalisation of USSR and allowing more and more culture from the west. This do happen when you have imperialist powers and capitalist class using and promoting drugs against working class. You can compare to what happened in all socialist states after system change. Better would be looking at modern China and hundreds of millions of opium addicts in it. Wait, there aren't hundreds of millions opium addicts there now, i wonder what happened after 1949, surely Mao just didn't forbid them their fun?