Then they silenced anyone who disagreed with them. - a sure sign you are dealing with either fascists or communists.
Now they demand everyone mouth the words they want to hear. - a communist for sure.
There was an old woman in East Germany who was interviewed after the fall of the wall. She was asked about having lived under bot the nazis and the communists. She said preferred living under the the nazis because they would tell you what to do, but would otherwise leave you alone, whereas the communists would keep badgering you, demanding that you like it.
Exactly. And it is what we see behind all this unrest today. It is more akin to the Chicom Cultural Revolution, where people were forced to denounce everyone else, including parents, siblings, and children.
My brother and I were discussing the movie “The Lives of Others” about life behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany.
The Nazis took their Teutonic striving for order and efficiency, and harnessed it to mass murder.
The Communists took their Teutonic striving for order and efficiency, and harnessed it to surveillance of their citizenry.