This is a very gentle version of what Terrorism actually is. It is not the attacks of an enemy no matter how heinous and horrendous. It is not political opposition, no matter how violent. Terrorism or The Terror is state sponsored random violence against the people, random taking of citizens for no sensible reason or for reason that they are some sort of “enemies of the State.” It is random execution of citizens or sending of citizens off to forced labor institutions as slaves for no sensible reason. Terror is violence directed by a government against its own subjects/citizens for the purpose of making trust impossible so that opposition to the government cannot form. No one knows why people are taken or killed thus they must suspect that anyone can be informing to the “organs.”
I remember the first time I learned that just asking a policeman not to arrest you is “resisting arrest”, I couldn’t believe it.