The Japanese hideouts are adequately described as asshats
Why am I not the least surprised that you are unable to imagine a reasonable middleground between an insane return to the Neolithic and a complete suck-up to the communists; you know, the way 99% of Russians got by without losing either their souls or their minds? You are free to admire the insane if you choose.
Even reasonable estimates put the number of Russians killed by Stalin at 20 to 50 million.
And you are claiming 99% of Russians cut and ducked and ran and informed and, as you so blithely put it, “got by”?
How many people do you think LIVED in the Soviet Union during the Communist era?
Were you by any chance one of the asshat statisticians who used to work for Stalin, reporting tremendous crop harvests, tremendous productivity, tremendous advances in science, and so on?
Because that’s what you sound like, asshat.