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Did you know? In Soviet totalitarianism people were struggling to make ends meet. The State required of everyone to do these meaningless tasks all day long just to maintain the appearance of normalcy, everyone could see the writing on the wall but nobody felt safe deviating from Party lines. But people grew up hearing stories about brave agents of the NKVD cleverly rooting out terrorists, murderers and rapists; this was everywhere, all the fiction depicted the State order as the safe and desirable status quo and all disruption as murderous villainy, they were used to to think of their oppressors as heroes, as guardians who stood between them and the always-present threat of predatory monsters lurking among good people...

Hold on I think I mixed my papers for a sec, sorry that was about us here right now, not the Soviets