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If you think that what is happening now in the United States is something new, then you are deeply mistaken. Almost the same thing happened in Russia in the last century. Almost exactly 100 years ago, when the same Great Country was destroyed. Don't let this happen! The methods do not change. Everything is the same. As always. The church was destroyed. The institution of the family has been destroyed. The police have been demoralized and destroyed. Tens of thousands of criminals were released. According to historians, among the about 90 thousand prisoners released from places of imprisonment or MLS by three amnesties of the Provisional Government, starting in March 1917, thousands of inveterate criminals received their will. It was they who were called "Kerensky's chicks" by the name of the then Minister of Justice Alexander Kerensky. Amnesties: political, military and criminal. On the fourth day after the Minister of Justice of the Provisional Government A.Kerensky took office (March 6, 1917), his department issued a decree on political amnesty. Three days earlier, the Ministry of Justice abolished the special civil courts, the tsarist secret police and the gendarmerie. Following this, a military amnesty was announced on March 14, and three days later the Ministry of Justice issued a decree "On alleviating the fate of those who have committed criminal offenses." By the way, it was the Provisional Government that introduced the term “amnesty” into legal practice (earlier in such cases it was about pardon). In fact, many imprisoned under the tsar received freedom before all these normative legal acts were issued - after the autocracy ceased to exist, the doors of places of imprisonment were thrown open by revolutionary-minded armed detachments. What was the “criminal” amnesty? The amnesty, which resulted in thousands of criminals at large, abolished the death penalty and replaced it with 15-year hard labor. Perpetual hard labor was abolished as a form of punishment. All convicts, without exception, had their sentences "halved". With a large number of convicts, convictions were generally removed, and they were subject to release. The convicts were to be exiled to the settlement for a period not exceeding 3 years. As the researchers calculated, as a result of all these indulgences caused by the amnesty, the vast majority of all convicts who were in the Russian MLS (80%) were at large. In addition, from emigration to Russia, as well as from exile and prisons, those who were “potential prisoners” under the tsar returned to active revolutionary activity - V. I. Ulyanov-Lenin, L. D. Bronstein-Trotsky, I. V. Dzhugashvili-Stalin. They even released those imprisoned for preparing and carrying out terrorist acts, sentenced to life in prison for especially grave crimes. For example, Nestor Makhno, who was convicted of the murder of an official of the military administration to indefinite hard labor, turned out to be such amnestied. At the time of his release, he served 7 years. Moreover, at that time, often through the Russian print media, a fundraiser was announced for material assistance to those released from the MLS - so that they had something to get home with. What "nests" the "chicks" began to build. The new government tried to replace the abolished tsarist departments of law enforcement, judicial and penitentiary systems with "correctional societies", believing that in gratitude for the release of the "victims of tsarism" in this way they would quickly socialize and become normal members of society. However, thieves, robbers, robbers and murderers in the conditions of the revolutionary time and the aggravated economic situation (widespread unemployment, lack of food and other essential goods) took up their usual occupations. Both in the capital and in the periphery, crime has grown tenfold. Moreover, the number of crimes committed with particular cruelty has increased. According to historical information, only in St. Petersburg from April to August 1917, the number of thefts alone increased 6.7 times. The most criminal were the central districts of the capital. Criminal elements seized the buildings of institutions and organizations, turning them into "raspberries", killed and robbed with impunity. On a national scale, such manifestations were massive. The criminal situation remained difficult for a long time, and after the Bolsheviks came to power.