Darling, the police of a Socialist state are not equivalent to the police of capitalists. They have completely different motivations. Police under capitalism exist to protect private property and nothing else.
The function of the police in a worker's state is the same as in that of a bourgeois state: enforcing the class interest of the ruling class. The difference lies in who constitutes the ruling class.
They did have their culture/religion repressed; not in totality but many practices are disallowed or only conditionally allowed. Many innocents are compelled to attend re-education centers that may in some cases restrict certain religious practices.
There were no re-education centres. That's a sinophobic trope. There were vocational training centres. That's all.
Darling, the police of a Socialist state are not equivalent to the police of capitalists. They have completely different motivations. Police under capitalism exist to protect private property and nothing else. The function of the police in a worker's state is the same as in that of a bourgeois state: enforcing the class interest of the ruling class. The difference lies in who constitutes the ruling class.