The Russians/Soviets have guard towers on every block who monitor which rooms citizens are in at any given moment. Absolutely no true freedom of movement, unlike those of us in the free world. At the time, I figured people could trick the guards by just not turning on lights in the room when they moved about. As the years went on, two questions came to mind: isn’t that prohibitively expensive? and why???
The srcret police would break into peoples homes during the day and just move things around to keep people paranoid. People in those countries do genually live in fear.
Did they think authoritarian governments do surveillance just for shits and giggles? Why would Stalin care about what room people are in in their homes??
The Russians/Soviets have guard towers on every block who monitor which rooms citizens are in at any given moment. Absolutely no true freedom of movement, unlike those of us in the free world. At the time, I figured people could trick the guards by just not turning on lights in the room when they moved about. As the years went on, two questions came to mind: isn’t that prohibitively expensive? and why???
Even North Korea never went that far.
They just had one guard in every room. It saved a lot on guard towers.
The srcret police would break into peoples homes during the day and just move things around to keep people paranoid. People in those countries do genually live in fear.
Did they think authoritarian governments do surveillance just for shits and giggles? Why would Stalin care about what room people are in in their homes??