You only have to go back to the fall of the soviet union to see how this goes. What one day seems like an imposing and unassailable edifice just collapses and every body walks away. Why? Because they all knew it was all bull, the entire society was running on what everyone knew to be a pack of lies. But they couldn’t say. Until they could.
Common Russian joke:
They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work.