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{{Short description|Crime of living at the expense of others}}{{For|the biology term|Parasitism#Social parasitism}}{{Worldwide-view|date=June 2021|2=the Soviet Union}}
[[File:Kulak plakat.jpg|thumb|This Soviet [[propaganda]] poster encouraged [[dekulakization]], by portraying the [[Kulak|Kulaks]] as [[hoarding]]. ]]
'''Social parasitism''' was a [[political crime]] in the [[Soviet Union]] in which the perpetrator was accused of living at the expense of other people or society.
== Soviet Union ==
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For example, the Russian poet [[Joseph Brodsky]] was charged with social parasitism<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Remnick|first=David|title=Gulag Lite|url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/12/20/101220taco_talk_remnick?printable=true|accessdate=11 October 2011|magazine= [[The New Yorker]]|date=December 20, 2010}}</ref> by the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] authorities. A 1964 trial found that his series of odd jobs and role as a poet were not a sufficient contribution to society.
A number of Soviet intellectuals and dissidents were accused of the crime of parasitism, including [[Iosif Begun]], [[Vladimir Voinovich]], [[Lev Kopelev]] and [[Andrei Amalrik]].<ref>[https://www.kommersant.ru/gallery/4800865#id2050473 Those who do not work must be put under arrest (Russian)], a gallery of intellectuals accused of the crime of "parasitism", [[Kommersant]]</ref>
== Belarus ==
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