socialist justice

socialist justice
   arbitrary punishment
   The Russian Communist euphemism for legalistic tyranny:
    [Gorbachev] read law; an unusual choice in a country where 'socialist justice' — the Gulag, the execution cellar — had for so long taken precedence over juridical nicety. (Moynahan, 1994)

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