[TigerLikesRooster]

I suspect there is no change. Their government at all levels exact some kind of payments from people. There are bribes. Hard currency earning enterprises regularly pay off superiors to stay in business. This kind of bribes is a sort of unofficial corporate taxes.

Then there are extra production quota. For example, they are asked to collect a certain amount of scrap metals and hand them to the authorities. People are frequently serving as conscripted laborers to do things other than making their living, without anything in return.

[AdmSmith]

Like the life in Soviet.