What happened to Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Romania, North Korea, China, and Russia in the police state regards? It appears that large countries regardless or political ideology tend to rely on a militarized police state to enforce their decrees and the main way to combat that is by having freedoms like a meaningful voice in government free transfer of information, and protections for everyone, and penalties for crimes that are enforced consistently and not used as a tool to extort control over cronies and to keep opposition out.

This becomes a question of the class nature of the state. Capitalist states use violent police to preserve capitalist power and suppress the working classes, while socialist states use state power to suppress capitalists and protect the working classes. Class struggle does not end in socialism, but the class in control is transfered to the working classes.