[Gen.Blather]

Research into Stalin’s purges revealed that he’d set quotas. “Arrest and execute 20,000 from Stalingrad.” They kept statistics. I’d have though terror would rapidly lead to loss of power. But, apparently terror works.

[Psalm 144]

I’d have though terror would rapidly lead to loss of power. But, apparently terror works.

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Most people will sell out. Until the hour of testing, know one is a sure bet. No one. And if you are willing to offer yourself up to certain death, and torture if captured, what about your kids, your spouse or your parents?

“Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered.”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

It does work and that's why it's nearly impossible to get these heroes of the left out of commission without military intervention because fear is what keeps them in power and they know it, and fear is impossible to destroy on a mass scale. I mean just think - if everybody in North Korea refused to listen to this twerp, his power would end in a nano-second. But that would never happen because of fear. Either way, it's ultimate example of what happens when a government is allowed to run amok which the left considers Utopia.

Some of the millionaire Utopia adherents...

[BobL]

“Research into Stalin’s purges revealed that he’d set quotas. “Arrest and execute 20,000 from Stalingrad.” They kept statistics. I’d have though terror would rapidly lead to loss of power. But, apparently terror works.”

Actually terror works quite well. The key is to STICK TO IT, and not start to wonder off thinking about how families would be affected (for example).

That’s why Stalin was so effective...and Lenin too, although he doesn’t get the credit he deserves for stating thing like “if you oppose my plan, you should be tortured and executed, and your family too, including your children”.

No...he is a HERO in the colleges that many FReepers send their kids to.