At Nuremberg, American judges had to teach the Soviet judges about concepts such as β€œinnocent until proven guilty.” The Soviets saw the trials as simply being about whether the accused went to the gulags or were taken out back with a pistol. Most people aren’t prepared to learn just how different their cultures are from others, let alone realize the implications.
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That's interesting. I'm actually pretty much unaware of legal traditions outside of the common Western ones and authoritarian ones. So I could certainly imagine that I would be confused encountering one that's very different from those.

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