I can’t imagine how world leaders in general keep the paranoia at bay, let alone how Stalin could have. Literally is the solution to just section off information between parts of your government and not give a shit about moles so long as people’s behavior is beneficial to you?
Well it was more that there was a culture of "if we can't find a saboteur the saboteur must be really good" that led to a criminalisation of incompetance, mainly because politically active people tend to assume other people are way more politically motivated than they are.
For instance a family friend of mine lived through ww1, ww2 and well into east germany without realising any of those things had happened thinking the kaiser was in charge
For instance a family friend of mine lived through ww1, ww2 and well into east germany without realising any of those things had happened thinking the kaiser was in charge
I can’t imagine how world leaders in general keep the paranoia at bay, let alone how Stalin could have. Literally is the solution to just section off information between parts of your government and not give a shit about moles so long as people’s behavior is beneficial to you?
Well it was more that there was a culture of "if we can't find a saboteur the saboteur must be really good" that led to a criminalisation of incompetance, mainly because politically active people tend to assume other people are way more politically motivated than they are.
For instance a family friend of mine lived through ww1, ww2 and well into east germany without realising any of those things had happened thinking the kaiser was in charge
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Wow. That explains a lot actually
am i reading this correctly??? :wut:
Yeah his boss had political connections that got him out of the wars, and he took no interest in either politics or the news
:grillman: he just wanted to grill for god's sake
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