@ Steevo
I am from Romania. I am sure that in all East European countries, the CPs work the same, not only in the South States. One of colleagues from the University failed his exams and consequently his father came to the students' hostel and beat him with the belt. He was ashamed, but he confessed that at home he still got spankings with a garden horse, even he was 21 y.o. In the countryside, some lads were whipped (yes, it could be cruel, but it happened) in the house yard, usually totally stripped. I never heard one of the to protest or oppose.