OP wrote in response to a very specific incident, and he wrote exactly about that specific incident before he wrote
> This is unacceptable. This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control.
So I would say my assumption that he was talking about exactly that incident are quite justified, and this was specifically about children walking around on their own.
I have no idea how in that very specific text and context of OPs comment some general statement about Eastern Bloc authoritarianism can be deduced, or if it can, how it would make any sense to suddenly bring that up in that very specific context, which OPs comment maintains. As far as I can tell it's always within this frame of the story.
I see no reason why my response would not fit perfectly. The Eastern Bloc did not have that problem, it makes no sense to try to reframe it. How does it matter that they (we) had lots of other problems? ones not the subject of the current discussion?
> This is unacceptable. This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control.
So I would say my assumption that he was talking about exactly that incident are quite justified, and this was specifically about children walking around on their own.
I have no idea how in that very specific text and context of OPs comment some general statement about Eastern Bloc authoritarianism can be deduced, or if it can, how it would make any sense to suddenly bring that up in that very specific context, which OPs comment maintains. As far as I can tell it's always within this frame of the story.
I see no reason why my response would not fit perfectly. The Eastern Bloc did not have that problem, it makes no sense to try to reframe it. How does it matter that they (we) had lots of other problems? ones not the subject of the current discussion?