State control is a tricky business. If an ideology or faith challenges the supreme power of the state, what actions can be taken to reassert authority?
In the 1950s and 60s the gulags and psychiatric hospitals were full of Russian dissidents, or people merely suspected of not toeing the party line. Stalin was the master of fear and repression. His legacy lives on in the tactics of Vladimir Putin.
Myanmar’s violent treatment of a Muslim minority by the military and its repeated denials of genocide to the world’s press is the usual totalitarian approach to opposition.
China has built a massive detention centre in the desert to ‘re-educate’ those with wrong thoughts. It is reported that large numbers of Muslims are being held there to be educated.
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