When I was in grad school I had the pleasure of meeting several folks who had grown up in communist countries (not counting China here as I think that is a different case). I knew a guy from Rumania, I guy from Moscow and a prof from Hungary. Every single of these guys told me the same thing - that when they were made to do or say crap like this they all knew it was BS - I guess it goes without saying - but most folks by that age have a very well developed BS detector.
But what is not BS is that they can be made to do and say things against their will. Their status as cowards and “go along with the crazy leftwingers and don’t stand up to them” can be confirmed and ingrained.
I’d love to see a documentary called America’s Gulag Archipelago: the college campus’
I haven’t seen Indoctrinate U yet. I heard it was good.