Until they are the ones in the back of the buses, bent over and wired with their arms behind their backs, being driven to the Katyn Forest to be massacred by a bullet to their brains.
YEP! They actually, really don't think that will happen to them, because they've been so helpful to their leaders for so long, undermining and sabotaging fellow workers, turning in their neighbors, betraying family members - you know, accumulating their little gold stars.
They also don't read history.